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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
to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake
to burn (a CD or DVD)
to sinter / to agglomerate ore by burning
to reduce a fever
caustic soda NaOH
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)
laboratory flask
to braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown
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 burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred
to burn / to scorch / to cauterize
to calcine (purify by heating)
baked sesame seed-coated cake
to cook
char siu / barbecued pork
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒
to worry
burn (injury)
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
a still (for distilling alcohol)
to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
to roast / to bake (e.g. mineral ore)
beaker (glassware)
to invite trouble
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
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
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 weld
incendiary bomb
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person
yakitori, a Japanese dish of skewered grilled chicken
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
dorayaki (a Japanese confection)
to heat until red-hot
(textiles) to singe
to burn coal
barbecue (Cantonese style)
(electronics) screen burn-in
to make tea
siu mei / spit-roasted meat dish in Cantonese cuisine
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
to fire (pottery)
burnout / peel out
teppanyaki
to cook
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
burning pain
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
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
incendiary agent
to burn incense and worship Buddha
yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
fan / zealot
steamed bun stuffed with skewer-roasted pork
barbecue sauce
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 clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble / doing things at the last minute / to make a hasty last-minute effort (often refers to cramming for exams)
deflagrating spoon / combustion spoon
(old) to burn paper money as an offering
burn (injury) / scorching
burning pain
to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet
to burn incense / to thank profusely
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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