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燒

燒

See also: 焼 and 烧

Translingual

Traditional 燒
Shinjitai 焼
Simplified 烧

Han character

燒 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火土土山 (FGGU), four-corner 94811, composition ⿰火堯)

  1. burn
  2. bake
  3. heat
  4. roast

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 683, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19420
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1095, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2231, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+71D2

Chinese

trad. 燒
simp. 烧
alt. forms 焼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (垚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撓 *hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
鐃 *rŋaːw
譊 *rŋaːw
橈 *rŋaːws, *ŋjew
磽 *ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
墝 *ŋ̥ʰreːw
穘 *hŋreːw
顤 *hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
燒 *hŋjew, *hŋjaws
饒 *ŋjew, *ŋjaws
蟯 *ŋjew, *ʔŋew
蕘 *ŋjew
襓 *ŋjew
繞 *ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
遶 *ŋjewʔ
嬈 *njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
趬 *ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
蹺 *ŋ̥ʰew
翹 *ɡew, *ɡews
澆 *ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
驍 *ŋkeːw
僥 *kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
堯 *ŋeːw
垚 *ŋeːw
嶢 *ŋeːw
獟 *ŋeːws
膮 *hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
嘵 *hŋeːw
憢 *hŋeːw
曉 *hŋeːwʔ
皢 *hŋeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋjew, *hŋjaws) : semantic 火 ‎(“fire”) + phonetic 堯 ‎(OC *ŋeːw).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燒 燒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 宵 (91) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 式招切 失照切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiᴇu/ /ɕiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɛu/ /ɕiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjæu/ /ɕjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕiaw/ /ɕiawH/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiɛu/ /ɕiɛuH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭɛu/ /ɕĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ɛu/ /ɕi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shāo shào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ̊]ew/
English burn

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 燒 燒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14666 14667
Phonetic
component		 垚 垚
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 燒 少
Old
Chinese		 /*hŋjew/ /*hŋjaws/

Definitions

燒

  1. to burn
    燃燒 / 燃烧  ―  ránshāo  ―  to burn
  2. to roast
    燒肉 / 烧肉  ―  shāoròu  ―  siu yuk
  3. (Cantonese) to set off (firecrackers)
    燒炮仗 / 烧炮仗 [Cantonese]  ―  siu1 paau3 zoeng6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to set off firecrackers
  4. (Cantonese, electronics) to burn out

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

燒

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 焼)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

燒 • ‎(so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

  1. to burn
  2. fire

Synonyms

  • 烙 (낙, nag)
  • 焠 (쉬, swi)
  • 灼 (작, jag)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

燒 (thiêu, thiu, sao)

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