Boil the water.
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烧
Traditional: 燒
shāo
HSK 3.0 · 4
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shāo · siu1 (Jyutping)
- 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
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Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Boil some water.
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