HSK 5 · Adjectives

烫 tàng “very hot” in Chinese

Traditional 燙

What 烫 means

  1. very hot
  2. scalding
  3. to scald
  4. to burn (by scalding)
  5. to blanch (cooking)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to heat (sth) up in hot water
  • to perm
  • to iron

How to say 烫

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale烫tàng4th tone, falling

烫 in a sentence

  1. 咖啡很烫。

    Kāfēi hěn tàng.

    The coffee is very hot.

    Sentence #10742434 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 小心不要烫着自己。

    Xiǎoxīn búyào tàngzháo zìjǐ.

    Be careful not to burn yourself.

    Sentence #14007922 from Tatoeba

  3. 她的左手被烫到了。

    Tā de zuǒshǒu bèi tàng dào le.

    She burnt her left hand.

    Sentence #6016966 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 烫 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 烫 (tàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
烫tàngto scald
  • 汤soup · shāngSound part
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 汤 (shāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tàng.

How to write 烫

烫 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 烫

More words: Adjectives

熟练shúliàn · practised丝毫sīháo · the slightest amount or degree私人sīrén · private坦率tǎnshuài · frank特殊tèshū · special天真tiānzhēn · naive透明tòumíng · transparent突出tūchū · prominent

FAQs

烫 (tàng) means “very hot” or “scalding”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tàng: tàng with a 4th 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, 烫 is written 燙. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 烫 from the suggestions. Typing tang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
烫 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.