| | to burn; to set on fire / to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc) / to braise / to cook; to prepare food / to run a fever / fever / (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away | HSK 4 |
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| | hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn | HSK 4 |
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| | to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in | HSK 4 |
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| | to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night | HSK 6 |
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| | to ignite / to combust / to burn / combustion / flaming | HSK 4 |
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| | smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL: 支, 條|条, 根, 包, 盒) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to burn down (idiom) | |
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| | scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to abrade; to scrape; to chafe; to graze / abrasion; friction burn; scratch | |
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| | to burn / to set on fire | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to burn / to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes) / to start (debate) / to raise (hopes) | |
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| | lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress | |
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| | (idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially | |
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| | lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats | |
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| | lit. to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis (proverb) / fig. to neglect preparation until the last moment, then act in panic | |
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| | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things | |
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| | to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson | |
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| | to burn incense and worship Buddha | |
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| | While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope. | |
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| | to burn coal | |
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| | to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred | |
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| | to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet | |
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| | to burn fat; to lose weight (through diet or exercise) | |
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| | lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom) / fig. arrogance of the powerful / a mighty figure no-one dares approach / hot (exciting or in favor) | |
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| | to scald / to burn (by scalding) / to blanch (cooking) / to heat (sth) up in hot water / to perm / to iron / scalding hot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency | |
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| | to burn incense | |
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| | to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning) | |
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| | (surname) Burns / Nicholas Burns (1956–), US ambassador to China 2022–2025 | |
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| | (electronics) screen burn-in | |
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| | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇) | |
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| | to burn incense in prayer to a God | |
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| | to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) | |
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| | clenbuterol hydrochloride (diet pill that burns fat) / e.g. Spiropent | |
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| | to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake | |
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| | to burn; to sear; to scorch / (bound form) bright; luminous | |
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| | slash and burn (agriculture) | |
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| | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency | |
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| | burn (injury) / scorching | |
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| | to burn one's eyebrows / fig. desperately serious situation | |
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| | to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard / to study diligently / to burn the candle at both ends | |
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| | to burn / to set afire | |
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| | to make a temple pilgrimage and burn incense | |
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| | to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil | |
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| | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | |
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| | burn (i.e. wound) / burning pain | |
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| | to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture) | |
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| | to burn incense / to thank profusely | |
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| | to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) / to labor under a double burden | |
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| | to put to the torch (idiom) / to commit to the flames / to burn sth down deliberately | |
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| | to burn incense | |
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| | to record on a CD or DVD / to burn a disc | |
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| | to burn (a CD or DVD) | |
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| | to burn without flame; to smolder | |
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| | to burn (food by overroasting etc) | |
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| | to burn / to blaze / splendid / illustrious | |
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| | burn incense | |
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| | to burn incense | |
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| | burn / to roast meat for sacrifice | |
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| | to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions) / over the top; excessive / burned | |
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| | lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one | |
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| | to burn incense at a temple | |
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| | to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person | |
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| | wick of an oil lamp / to burn (incense etc) / classifier for lit incense sticks | |
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| | to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day | |
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| | burn (injury) | |
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| | (dialect) to burn / to scorch | |
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| | (literary) slash-and-burn agriculture | |
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| | to forget oneself in extravagance / to burn money | |
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| | to burn to death | |
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| | to burn down / to destroy with fire | |
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| | to burn down / to destroy with fire | |
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| | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | |
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| | without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges | |
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| | (old) to burn paper money as an offering | |
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| | to get angry / to burn with rage | |
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| | to burn | |
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| | to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony) | |
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| | a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc) / to burn (the skin etc) / (fig.) (of anger, jealousy etc) to hurt (sb) | |
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| | to burn | |
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| | to burn / to blaze | |
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| | lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc) | |
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| | Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII | |
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| | to burn; to scorch | |
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| | to burn with anxiety | |
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| | to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers | |
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| | to cover a fire (to make it burn slowly) | |
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| | to scorch / to burn to charcoal / sick with worry | |
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| | heat / to burn | |
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| | burn / heat | |
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| | to extinguish a burning object / to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette) / to stir-fry / to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food | |
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| | lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil / work especially hard | |
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| | blister (caused by burns) | |
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| | lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike | |
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| | paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead) | |
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| | (literary) slash-and-burn agriculture | |
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| | to burn | |
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| | Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet | |
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