烘
hōng HSK7

bake

烘 hōng
bake verb
to bake, dry, or warm something using fire or a heat source

他坐在火炉旁，烘了烘被雨淋湿的衣服。

tā zuò zài huǒ​lú páng, hōng le hōng bèi yǔ lín​shī de yī​fu.

He sat by the stove to dry his rain-soaked clothes.

set off idiom
to set off by contrast, often used in artistic or literary contexts

烘云托月是一种常用的绘画手法。

hōng yún​tuō​yuè shì yī zhǒng cháng​yòng de huì​huà shǒu​fǎ.

Highlighting a subject by painting a contrasting background is a common technique in Chinese painting.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,266th most common 7.09 per million
Movie subtitles
2,611th most common 6.96 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.80 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.08 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+70D8

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)