烫
tàng HSK7

scald

烫 (燙) tàng
hot adjective
scalding hot; having a very high temperature

这碗汤太烫了，等会儿再喝。

zhè wǎn tāng tài tàng le, děng huì​r zài hē.

This soup is too hot; drink it in a little while.

scald verb
to burn or injure the skin with hot liquid or steam

小心别被开水烫着。

xiǎo​xīn bié bèi kāi​shuǐ tàng zháo.

Be careful not to scald yourself with the boiling water.

blanch verb
to dip food briefly in boiling water or to heat something up in hot water

把青菜在开水里烫一下就好。

bǎ qīng​cài zài kāi​shuǐ lǐ tàng yī​xià jiù hǎo.

Just blanch the vegetables in boiling water.

perm verb
to give or get a permanent wave in the hair using heat or chemicals

她去理发店烫了头发。

tā qù lǐ​fà​diàn tàng le tóu​fa.

She went to the hair salon to get a perm.

iron verb
to smooth clothes or fabric using a heated iron

这件衬衫需要烫平再穿。

zhè jiàn chèn​shān xū​yào tàng​píng zài chuān.

This shirt needs to be ironed before it can be worn.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,903rd most common 11.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,083rd most common 16.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.5 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
16.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
燙
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+70EB

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