烤 (kǎo): to roast, to bake
烤 (kǎo) is a Chinese character meaning “to roast, to bake.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 火 (semantic) and 考 (phonetic). It ranks #2510 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 烤 fire. Its radical form 火 (fire) appears in many related characters such as 火 (huǒ, fire), 灯 (dēng, lamp, light), 烟 (yān, smoke).
Definitions
- to roast, to bake
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 烤
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烤肉noun | kǎo ròu | to barbecue meat |
| 烤箱noun | kǎo xiāng | oven |
| 烤炉noun | kǎo lú | oven |
| 烘烤verb | hōng kǎo | to roast |
| 烤火verb | kǎo huǒ | to warm oneself at a fire |
| 烤鸭noun | kǎo yā | roast duck |
| 烤烟 | kǎo yān | flue-cured tobacco |
| 烤面包机noun | kǎo miàn bāo jī | toaster |
| 烤面包noun | kǎo miàn bāo | to toast bread |
| 土耳其旋转烤肉 | tǔ ěr qí xuán zhuǎn kǎo ròu | Turkish döner kebab |
| 现烤 | xiàn kǎo | freshly baked |
| 烤电 | kǎo diàn | diathermia (medical treatment involving local heating of body tissues with electric current) |
| 旋转烤肉 | xuán zhuǎn kǎo ròu | döner kebab |
| 烤房 | kǎo fáng | drying room |
| 北京烤鸭noun | běi jīng kǎo yā | Peking Duck |
烤 appears in 33 compound words: 64 as the first character, 21 as the last, and 15 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 烤 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这家烧烤店的羊肉串很受欢迎，每天晚上都要排队等位。
Zhè jiā shāokāo diàn de yángròu chuàn hěn shòu huānyíng, měitiān wǎnshang dōu yào páiduì děng wèi.
The lamb skewers at this BBQ restaurant are very popular, and people have to wait in line for a table every evening.
为什么全中国的医院门口,都有一个烤红薯摊?卖烤红薯真能赚钱?#奇怪的知识 ...
wéi shén má quán zhōng guó de yī yuàn mén kǒu , dōu yǒu yī gè kǎo hóng shǔ tān ? mài kǎo hóng shǔ zhēn néng zhuàn qián ? qí guài de zhī shí . . .
Why is there a roasted sweet potato stand outside every hospital in China? Is selling roasted sweet potatoes really profitable? #WeirdFacts ...
“只有100多家还在烤酒”!贵州仁怀酱酒“洗牌”,茅台镇余氏兄...
zhī yǒu 1 0 0 duō jiā hái zài kǎo jiǔ ! guì zhōu rén huái jiàng jiǔ xǐ pái , máo tái zhèn yú shì xiōng . . .
"Only about 100 distilleries are still producing liquor"! A shake-up in Guizhou's Renhuai soy-sauce-flavored liquor industry; the Yu brothers of Maotai Town...
...I五层蛋糕谁少一层? 中国产业链中段恐仅烤熟一半
. . . I wǔ céng dàn gāo shéi shǎo yī céng ? zhōng guó chǎn yè liàn zhōng duàn kǒng jǐn kǎo shú yī bàn
...Which layer is missing from this five-layer cake? China’s midstream industrial chain may only be half-baked.
过年“烤蚵吃到饱”10人吐泻 业者说话了
guò nián kǎo 蚵 chī dào bǎo 1 0 rén tǔ xiè yè zhě shuō huà le
New Year's "all-you-can-eat oysters" 10 people vomited and diarrhea The operator spoke
盘核桃、叠衣服、穿烤肠,银河通用春晚机器人是怎么“..
pán hé táo dié yī fú chuān kǎo cháng , yín hé tōng yòng chūn wǎn jī qì rén shì zěn má . .
Cracking walnuts, folding clothes, threading sausages—how does the Galaxy Universal Spring Festival Gala robot do it?
汤姆烤了些巧克力脆饼。
Tāngmǔ kǎo le xiē qiǎokèlì cuì bǐng.
Tom baked some chocolate chip cookies.
将烤箱预热至华氏 300 度。
Jiāng kǎoxiāng yùrè zhì Huáshì 300 dù.
Preheat the oven to 300° Fahrenheit.
你想吃几串烤羊肉？
Nǐ xiǎng chī jǐ chuàn kǎo yángròu?
How many kebabs will you have?
我有好久都没烤面包了。要不今天烤点儿？
Wǒ yǒu hǎojiǔ dōu méi kǎomiànbāo le. yàobù jīntiān kǎo diǎnr?
I haven't baked bread in a long time. How about we bake a little today?
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 火 (fire) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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