燒
shāo HSK4

burn

烧 燒 shāo
to burn verb
to burn; to set on fire; to ignite

他们在烧衣服。

tā​men zài shāo yī​fu.

They're burning clothes.

fever verb
fever; abnormally high body temperature
to cook verb
to cook; to roast; to stew; to bake; to boil tea or water

我们正在烧鱼。

wǒ​men zhèng​zài shāo yú.

We are cooking fish.

to have a fever verb
to have a fever; to run a temperature

你是不是发烧了？

nǐ shì​bu​shì fā shāo le?

Are you running a fever?

to corrode
to cause destructive changes to an object or skin through contact with chemicals such as acid or alkali
to go to one's head
(colloquial) to let success or wealth go to one's head; to become conceited or feverish with excitement
audiophile
(slang) high-fidelity; relating to high-end audio or enthusiast equipment
to over-fertilize
to cause plants to wither or die by applying too much fertilizer

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,201st most common 114.1 per million
Movie subtitles
969th most common 110.8 per million appears in 37% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
85.5 per million appears in 24% of films
Written text
67.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
烧
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+71D2

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