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char siu / barbecued pork
incendiary bomb
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
fan / zealot
a low fever (up to 38°C)
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 burn incense and worship Buddha
to invite trouble
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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
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
barbecue / to roast
HSK 7-9
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
yakitori, a Japanese dish of skewered grilled chicken
to burn coal
to boil
steamed bun stuffed with skewer-roasted pork
stewed eggplant
to braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown
to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake
to cook
burnt offering (Judaism)
to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
HSK 7-9
baked sesame seed-coated cake
to burn incense
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 manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
to have a fever reaching (a certain temperature)
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒賣|烧卖
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
sukiyaki
okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancake) in the Kansai or Osaka 大阪 style
burn (injury) / scorching
to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred
to cook
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person
to burn / to set on fire
HSK 7-9
to ignite / to combust / to burn / combustion / flaming
HSK 4
to bury / funeral rites
kettle
barbecue sauce
to weld
caustic soda NaOH
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
(electronics) screen burn-in
to heat water / to boil water
incendiary agent
to sinter / to agglomerate ore by burning
to burn to death
laboratory flask
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
to fire (in a kiln)
a still (for distilling alcohol)
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
to burn incense / to thank profusely
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) / to labor under a double burden
(old) to burn paper money as an offering
siu mei (燒味|烧味) made from cured meat 臘肉|腊肉
to light a fire for cooking
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
Molotov cocktail
programmer (electronics)
to fire (pottery)
to burn (a CD or DVD)
to casserole / to stew / vacuum flask / cooker
fever / high temperature
(of fire) to continue burning; to spread / (fig.) (of a disease, controversy, issue or trend) to spread; to intensify; to gain traction
(neologism c. 2016) (coll.) (of a situation, problem or piece of content) intensely demanding on the brain; brain-bending
nabeyaki egg noodles
teppanyaki
to roast / to bake (e.g. mineral ore)
to worry
burning pain
burning pain
to heat until red-hot
red braised pork
taiyaki, Japanese-style waffle made with a fish-shaped mold, typically filled with a sweet bean paste
restless with anxiety / to feel unbearably painful or hot
to calcine (purify by heating)
dorayaki (a Japanese confection)
fire bomb / incendiary device
burn (injury)
to forget oneself in extravagance / to burn money
burnout / peel out
to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet
nuée ardente / hot cloud of volcanic ash
takoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food
deflagrating spoon / combustion spoon
(textiles) to singe
siu mei; Cantonese-style barbecue (roasted meats, such as pork, duck or chicken, seasoned and cooked to a crispy, flavorful finish)
yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒
to burn / to scorch / to cauterize
to make tea
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 reduce a fever
beaker (glassware)


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