燙
tàng HSK7

scald

烫 燙 tàng
to scald verb
to burn or injure the skin with high heat or hot liquids; to blanch food in boiling water

我烫到舌头了。

wǒ tàng dào shé​tou le.

I burned my tongue.

scalding adjective
burning or scalding hot; having a very high temperature

你的胸口很烫。

nǐ de xiōng​kǒu hěn tàng.

Your chest is very hot.

to iron or perm verb
to use heat to change the shape or state of something, such as ironing clothes or perming hair
to heat up
to warm something up by placing it in hot water, such as wine or milk

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
Simplified
烫
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+71D9

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