HSK 6 · Food

烘 hōng “to bake” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 烘 means

  1. to bake
  2. to dry or warm by a fire
  3. to heat by fire
  4. to set off by contrast

How to say 烘

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale烘hōng1st tone, high and level

烘 in a sentence

  1. 他在火旁烘干他的湿衣服。

    Tā zài huǒ páng hōnggān tā de shī yīfu.

    He dried his wet clothes by the fire.

    Sentence #1417549 from Tatoeba

How 烘 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 烘 (hōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
烘hōngto bake
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 共all · gòngSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 共 (gòng) hints at the sound. Compare it with hōng.

How to write 烘

烘 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 烘

More words: Food & Dining

蛋白质dànbáizhì · protein稻谷dàogǔ · rice (unhusked)丰盛fēngshèng · lavish风味fēngwèi · local flavour荤hūn · meat dish家常jiācháng · home-style煎jiān · to pan-fry搅拌jiǎobàn · to stir

FAQs

烘 (hōng) means “to bake” or “to dry or warm by a fire”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hōng: hōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 烘 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 烘 from the suggestions. Typing hong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
烘 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.