Dad uses fire to roast a chicken.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
火烧
to set fire to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to set fire to
02
to burn down
03
burning hot
04
baked cake
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 火烧 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 火烧 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The war in Europe was carried into Africa.
My throat burns.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 火烧.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 火烧.
Directly before
- 被火烧1
- 如同火烧1
- 战火烧1
- 用火烧1
Directly after
- 火烧一样1
- 火烧到1
- 火烧鸡肉1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 火烧
What does 火烧 mean in Chinese?
火烧 (huǒshāo) means to set fire to.
How do you pronounce 火烧?
火烧 is pronounced huǒshāo.
Is 火烧 an HSK word?
火烧 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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