燙

tàng

A2 Level 4
VerbStative verb

燙 (tàng) is a Chinese word meaning “to scald”. It sits at TOCFL Level 4 (CEFR A2) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard.

Definition

  1. to scald
  2. to burn (by scalding)
  3. to blanch (cooking)
  4. to heat (sth) up in hot water
  5. to perm
  6. to iron
  7. scalding hot

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Example

小心,這碗湯很燙。

Be careful; this soup is very hot.

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).