HSK 5 · Verbs

燃烧 ránshāo “to burn” in Chinese

Traditional 燃燒

What 燃烧 means

  1. to burn
  2. to combust
  3. to ignite
  4. combustion
  5. flaming

How to say 燃烧

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale燃rán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale烧shāo1st tone, high and level

燃烧 in a sentence

  1. 木头很容易燃烧。

    Mùtou hěn róngyì ránshāo.

    Wood burns very easily.

    Sentence #8500220 from Tatoeba

  2. 塑料不易燃烧。

    Sùliào búyì ránshāo.

    Plastic does not burn easily.

    Sentence #512204 from Tatoeba

How 燃烧 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 燃 (rán) with each of its parts in a different colour
燃ránto burn
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 然certainly · ránSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 然 (rán) hints at the sound. Compare it with rán.

The character 烧 (shāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
烧shāoto burn; to set on fire
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 尧a legendary ancient emperor-sage · YáoSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 尧 (Yáo) hints at the sound. Compare it with shāo.

How to write 燃烧

燃 16 strokes · 烧 10 strokes

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

Words related to 燃烧

Words with 烧

发烧fāshāo · have a fever

More words: Common Verbs

庆祝qìngzhù · to celebrate取消qǔxiāo · to cancel去世qùshì · to pass away缺乏quēfá · to lack绕rào · to wind忍不住rěnbuzhù · cannot help洒sǎ · to sprinkle杀shā · to kill

FAQs

燃烧 (ránshāo) means “to burn” or “to combust”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it ránshāo: rán with a 2nd tone, then shāo with a 1st 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, 燃烧 is written 燃燒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ranshao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 燃烧 from the suggestions. Typing ranshao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
燃烧 is an HSK 5 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.