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烧 — to burn; to set on fire; to heat

to burn; to set on fire; to heat; to boil; to braise

Pinyin
shāo
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 烧: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

烧 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 烧 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 发烧fāshāoto have a high temperature; to have a feverHSK 3
  2. 燃烧ránshāoto ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion; flamingHSK 5
  3. 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat; to boil; to braiseHSK 5
  4. 烧烤shāokǎobarbecue; to roastHSK 5
  5. 焚烧fénshāoto burn; to set on fireHSK 7–9
  6. 烧毁shāohuǐto destroy by fireHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.