Memory phrase for the character: 烫

烫

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Meaning

hot, to burn, to scald, to iron

Pronunciation

tàng

Explanation

Top: soup 汤 (Water 氵 is made by warming sunshine 易 into: a soup.), bottom: fire 火

Mnemonic

The soup on the fire is: hot and you will burn.

Radicals

汤	soup	The right half was simplified from 易, which shows the sun 日 with its warming rays 勿, so that the water 氵 warms up and becomes soup.
火	fire	Also this radical 灬 stands for fire.
氵	water	Simplified from this water 水
易	easy, change	At the top the sun 日 and below its shining 勿: This makes it easy!

Vocabulary

烫伤	tàng shāng	to scald
滚烫	gǔn tàng	boiling; scalding
麻辣烫	má là tàng	hot spicy soup (often sold in street stalls)
麻辣烫	má là tàng

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