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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
baked sesame seed-coated cake
to heat water / to boil water
barbecue / to roast
HSK 7-9
to boil
to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet
to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
HSK 7-9
beaker (glassware)
to forget oneself in extravagance / to burn money
to burn coal
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
to burn incense / to thank profusely
kettle
(electronics) screen burn-in
to have a fever reaching (a certain temperature)
burn (injury) / scorching
to weld
to cook
(textiles) to singe
to cook
incendiary bomb
barbecue sauce
(neologism c. 2016) (coll.) (of a situation, problem or piece of content) intensely demanding on the brain; brain-bending
a still (for distilling alcohol)
to sinter / to agglomerate ore by burning
programmer (electronics)
to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
to light a fire for cooking
to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
to make tea
caustic soda NaOH
to burn (a CD or DVD)
siu mei (燒味|烧味) made from cured meat 臘肉|腊肉
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒
to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)
to burn / to scorch / to cauterize
stewed eggplant
yakitori, a Japanese dish of skewered grilled chicken
siu mei; Cantonese-style barbecue (roasted meats, such as pork, duck or chicken, seasoned and cooked to a crispy, flavorful finish)
to bury / funeral rites
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒賣|烧卖
to burn to death
burn (injury)
to heat until red-hot
(old) to burn paper money as an offering
to worry
to burn incense and worship Buddha
burning pain
to fire (in a kiln)
to burn incense
to fire (pottery)
burning pain
laboratory flask
burnout / peel out


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