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燙

简烫 · 繁燙

Mandarin · pinyin tàng

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烫: tàng · scald, heat; wash; iron clothes

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4 · tang4

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tong3

Cantonese word readings for 燙. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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to burn; to scald; to injure (with high temperature)
to warm; to heat something up (using hot water or fire)
to perm (one's hair)
(cooking) to blanch
(Cantonese) to iron
hot (because of high temperature)

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