燒

燒 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火土土山 (FGGU), four-corner 9481₁, composition ⿰火堯)

• 𬘏

• 焼, 烧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 683, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19420
• Dae Jaweon: page 1095, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2231, character 7
• Unihan data for U+71D2

Historical forms of the character 燒
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋjew, *hŋjaws) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 堯 (OC *ŋeːw).

From 蕘 (OC *ŋjew, “firewood; fuel”) with causative devoicing (Schuessler, 2007).

燒

1. to burn

   燃燒／燃烧  ―  ránshāo  ―  to burn

2. to heat up; to make warm
3. to burn; to corrode
4. to roast; to grill; to braise

   燒肉／烧肉  ―  shāoròu  ―  siu yuk

   Synonym: 烤 (kǎo)

5. to stew after frying, or to fry after stewing
6. to cook (food)
7. (of a fuse) to blow
8. (medicine) to have a fever; to run a temperature
9. (medicine) fever; temperature
10. (colloquial) bigheaded; conceited and forgetting oneself due to having too many resources (money etc.)

    哎呦，你看看。隔壁那誰，燒得都不知道姓什麼了，把那點兒錢到處亂花。 [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
    哎呦，你看看。隔壁那谁，烧得都不知道姓什么了，把那点儿钱到处乱花。 [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]

    Āiyou, nǐ kànkan. Gébì nèi shéi, shāo de dōu bùzhīdào xìng shenme le, bǎ nèi diǎnr qián dàochu luàn huā. [Pinyin]

    Oh, look. The neighbor you-know-who, has lost clearheadedness to keep the money, spends that a little money on everywhere.

11. (dialectal Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Jin) boiling hot; scalding hot
12. (Hakka, Northern Min, Southern Min, Malaysian and Singapore Mandarin) hot; having a high temperature (distinguished from 熱／热, which describes weather)

    燒水／烧水 [Teochew]  ―  sio¹ zui² [Peng'im]  ―  hot water

13. (Cantonese) to set off (firecrackers, fireworks, etc.)

    燒炮仗／烧炮仗 [Cantonese]  ―  siu¹ paau³ zoeng^6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to set off firecrackers

    燒煙花／烧烟花 [Cantonese]  ―  siu¹ jin¹ faa¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to set off fireworks

14. (Cantonese, electronics) to burn out
15. (Sichuanese) to smoke
16. (Sichuanese) to trick; to deceive
17. (Sichuanese) to ridicule; to roast
18. (Internet slang) to cause flaming; to cause controversy
19. (Mainland China, Internet slang) Alternative form of 騷／骚 (sāo, “flirty; provocative”)

• “燒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 焼)

1. burn
2. grill

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: やく (yaku, 燒く)、やける (yakeru, 燒ける)

From Middle Chinese 燒 (MC syew|syewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 쇼 (syo) (Yale: syo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

燒

Wikisource

燒 (eumhun 불사를 소 (bulsareul so))

1. hanja form^? of 소 (“burn; fire”)

• 낙 (烙, nak)
• 쉬 (焠, swi)
• 작 (灼, jak)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

燒: Hán Nôm readings: thiêu, thiếu, thiu, sao

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