HSK 6 · Nature

沸腾 fèiténg “to boil” in Chinese

Traditional 沸騰

What 沸腾 means

  1. to boil
  2. to seethe with excitement
  3. (of a liquid) to boil
  4. (of sentiments etc) to boil over
  5. to flare up
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to be impassioned

How to say 沸腾

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale沸fèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale腾téng2nd tone, rising

沸腾 in a sentence

  1. 水沸腾后变为蒸汽。

    Shuǐ fèiténg hòu biànwéi zhēngqì.

    When water boils, it turns into steam.

    Sentence #333212 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们的老师说水到了一百度就会沸腾。

    Wǒmen de lǎoshī shuō shuǐ dào le yìbǎi dù jiù huì fèiténg.

    Our teacher said that water boils at 100 degrees.

    Sentence #528172 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 沸腾 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 沸 (fèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
沸fèito boil
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 弗not · fúSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 弗 (fú) hints at the sound. Compare it with fèi.

The character 腾 (teng) with each of its parts in a different colour
腾téngto gallop; to prance
  • 朕part of the characterSound part
  • 马horse · mǎMeaning part

How to write 沸腾

沸 8 strokes · 腾 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

沸腾 (fèiténg) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 沸腾 (fèiténg). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 沸腾

Words with 腾

折腾zhēteng · to toss and turn

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FAQs

沸腾 (fèiténg) means “to boil” or “to seethe with excitement”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fèiténg: fèi with a 4th tone, then téng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 沸腾 is written 沸騰. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type feiteng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 沸腾 from the suggestions. Typing feiteng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
沸腾 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.