烤 kǎo HSK5 bake, roast Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 考 represents the sound. Components 火 火 Meaning component huǒ fire 考 考 Sound component kǎo examine Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangkʰluːʔ Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang