燙

See also: 烫

Translingual

Han character

燙 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水竹火 (EHF), four-corner 3680₉, composition ⿱湯火)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 684, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19435
• Dae Jaweon: page 1096, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2238, character 3
• Unihan data for U+71D9

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Chinese

trad.		燙
simp.		烫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
湯	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪	*l̥ʰaːŋ
薚	*l̥ʰaːŋ
簜	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒	*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩	*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙	*l̥ʰaːŋs
啺	*l'aːŋ
碭	*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸	*l'aːŋʔ
愓	*l'aːŋʔ
璗	*l'aːŋʔ
崵	*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿	*l'aːŋs
暢	*l̥ʰaŋs
畼	*l̥ʰaŋs
腸	*l'aŋ
場	*l'aŋ
傷	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤	*hljaŋ
觴	*hljaŋ
慯	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓	*hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲	*hljaŋ
陽	*laŋ
楊	*laŋ
揚	*laŋ
瘍	*laŋ
煬	*laŋ, *laŋs
鍚	*laŋ
暘	*laŋ
颺	*laŋ, *laŋs
昜	*laŋ
輰	*laŋ
敭	*laŋ
鰑	*laŋ
諹	*laŋ, *laŋs
瑒	*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉	*laŋ
餳	*ljaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰaːŋs) : phonetic 湯 (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ) + semantic 火.

Etymology

From 湯 (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ, “hot water”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 燙

1. hot (because of high temperature)
2. to warm; to heat something up (using hot water or fire)
3. to burn; to injure (with high temperature)
4. (cooking) to blanch
5. (chiefly Cantonese) to iron

   燙恤衫／烫恤衫 [Cantonese]  ―  tong³ seot¹ saam¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to iron a shirt

Synonyms

• (hot): (Cantonese) 熱／热 (rè), (dialectal) 燒／烧 (shāo)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

燙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō), どう (dō)
• Kun: あたためる (atatameru)

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Korean

Hanja

燙 • (tang) (hangeul 탕, revised tang, McCune–Reischauer t'ang, Yale thang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 燙 (năng, nãng, nắng)

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