kǎo

bake, roast

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

考 sound component

  Sound component

kǎo

  

examine

Definitions

 

kǎo

bake, roast, toast, cook; to roast; to bake; to broil

Most common words with 烤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to roast

烧烤

barbecue

烤肉

barbecue (lit. roast meat)

烤箱

oven

烤烟

flue-cured tobacco

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 21.4640% of movies

1346th most common character in movies

2629th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+70E4


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