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Mandarin · pinyin shāo

to burn; to set on fire
to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc)
to braise
to cook; to prepare food
to run a fever
fever
(coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away

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燒: shāo · burn; bake; heat; roast
烧: shāo · burn; bake; heat; roast

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to burn
to heat up; to make warm
to burn; to corrode
to roast; to grill; to braise
to stew after frying, or to fry after stewing
to cook (food)
(of a fuse) to blow
(medicine) to have a fever; to run a temperature
(medicine) fever; temperature
(colloquial) bigheaded; conceited and forgetting oneself due to having too many resources (money etc.)
(dialectal Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Jin) boiling hot; scalding hot
(Cantonese) to set off (firecrackers, fireworks, etc.)
(Cantonese, electronics) to burn out
(Sichuanese) to smoke
(Sichuanese) to trick; to deceive
(Sichuanese) to ridicule; to roast
(Internet slang) to cause flaming; to cause controversy
(Mainland China, Internet slang) alternative form of 騷 /骚 (sāo, “flirty; provocative”)

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