燒

See also 焼, and 烧

Translingual

shinjitai	焼
simplified	烧
traditional	燒

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 堯

Han character

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

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

Descendants

• 焼 烧

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

燒 (simplified 烧, Yale siu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

燒

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: やく (yaku)

• Style: Traditional kyūjitai
  • Simplified shinjitai equivalent: 焼

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Korean

Hanja

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

Synonyms

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

Compounds

• 燒印 (소인, soin) brand, branding iron; cf. brandmark, Tamga, Runes
• 燒酒 (소주, soju)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

燒 (simplified 烧, pinyin shāo (shao1), Wade-Giles shao¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

燒 (*shiɛu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燒 (thiêu, thiu, sao)