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to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head
HSK 4
to ignite / to combust / to burn / combustion / flaming
HSK 4
to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing; thriving; popular
HSK 4
to burn / to set on fire
HSK 7-9
to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
HSK 7-9
barbecue / to roast
HSK 7-9
caustic soda NaOH
deflagrating spoon / combustion spoon
beaker (glassware)
to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet
(neologism c. 2016) (coll.) (of a situation, problem or piece of content) intensely demanding on the brain; brain-bending
char siu / barbecued pork
to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake
to worry
to burn to death
to cook on a skewer / barbecued food on a skewer / shish kebab / (fig.) to perform or play songs in sequence / sequence of songs / medley
to fire (in a kiln)
fever / high temperature
a low fever (up to 38°C)
to braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown
to burn coal
to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)
to heat water / to boil water
to light a fire for cooking
to burn incense
to cook
to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred
to burn / to scorch / to cauterize
to reduce a fever
to calcine (purify by heating)
baked sesame seed-coated cake
(textiles) to singe
to cook
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒
burn (injury)
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
a still (for distilling alcohol)
to roast / to bake (e.g. mineral ore)
to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
restless with anxiety / to feel unbearably painful or hot
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
to forget oneself in extravagance / to burn money
to weld
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person
to boil
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒賣|烧卖
to have a fever reaching (a certain temperature)
to bury / funeral rites
burning pain
dorayaki (a Japanese confection)
to heat until red-hot
siu mei (燒味|烧味) made from cured meat 臘肉|腊肉
steamed bun stuffed with skewer-roasted pork
(electronics) screen burn-in
to make tea
siu mei; Cantonese-style barbecue (roasted meats, such as pork, duck or chicken, seasoned and cooked to a crispy, flavorful finish)
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
to fire (pottery)
burnout / peel out
teppanyaki
takoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food
nuée ardente / hot cloud of volcanic ash
Molotov cocktail
fire bomb / incendiary device
programmer (electronics)
kettle
taiyaki, Japanese-style waffle made with a fish-shaped mold, typically filled with a sweet bean paste
sukiyaki
okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancake) in the Kansai or Osaka 大阪 style
stewed eggplant
lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) / fig. cannot be easily eliminated / abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风
incendiary agent
to burn incense and worship Buddha
yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
fan / zealot
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
nabeyaki egg noodles
burnt offering (Judaism)
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
(of fire) to continue burning; to spread / (fig.) (of a disease, controversy, issue or trend) to spread; to intensify; to gain traction
to invite trouble
(old) to burn paper money as an offering
incendiary bomb
burn (injury) / scorching
burning pain
barbecue sauce
laboratory flask
to sinter / to agglomerate ore by burning
to burn (a CD or DVD)
to burn incense / to thank profusely
yakitori, a Japanese dish of skewered grilled chicken
to casserole / to stew / vacuum flask / cooker
red braised pork
to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) / to labor under a double burden


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