漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
焼: bake, burning
JLPT N212 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
火 carries the meaning · 尭 is drawn in
12 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 焼却するしょうきゃくするincinerate, burn up
- 焼死するしょうしするbe burned to death
- 全焼するぜんしょうするburn down completely
やくyaku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 焼くやくbake, grill [v.t.]
やきyaki · kun'yomi
- 焼き物やきものearthenware, pottery, porcelain
- 焼きもちやきもちjealousy
- 焼き鳥やきとりgrilled chicken on a stick
- 目玉焼きめだまやきeggs fried sunny-side-up
やけるyakeru · kun'yomi
- 焼けるやけるbe burned, be sunburnt [v.i.]
- 日焼けひやけsunburn
- 夕焼けゆうやけsunset
Also read やき-, -やき, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)火 fire (meaning) + 堯 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 燒 (rev. 92965543), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fire transforms food through cooking”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尭
Also built on high (尭)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side焼 bake · 火
vs暁 daybreak · 日In ChineseSimplified 烧 · traditional 燒 · shāo
Three different forms: Japanese 焼, simplified 烧, traditional 燒.
- Simplified
- 烧 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 燒 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shāo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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