烙 (lào): to brand, to iron, to bake (in a pan)
烙 (lào) is a Chinese character meaning “to brand.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 火 (semantic) and 各 (phonetic). It ranks #3074 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 烙 fire. Its radical form 火 (fire) appears in many related characters such as 火 (huǒ, fire), 烟 (yān, smoke), 烧 (shāo, to burn, to cook).
Definitions
- to brand
- to iron
- to bake (in a pan)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烙印noun | lào yìn | to brand (cattle etc) |
| 烙饼noun | lào bǐng | pancake |
| 烙铁noun | lào tie | flatiron |
| 电烙铁 | diàn lào tie | electric iron |
| 炮烙noun | páo luò | form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 in which the victim was forc... |
烙 appears in 5 compound words: 60 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 20 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Example Sentences
另一种吃法更家常:烙馍卷羊肉。
lìng yī zhǒng chī fǎ gèng jiā cháng : lào 馍 juǎn yáng ròu .
Another, more home-style way to enjoy it is to wrap lamb in a flatbread.
“头伏饺子二伏面,三伏烙饼摊鸡蛋”,北方称之为“贴伏膘”。
tóu fú jiǎo zǐ èr fú miàn , sān fú lào bǐng tān jī dàn , běi fāng chēng zhī wéi tiē fú 膘 .
“Dumplings during the first heat wave, noodles during the second, and pancakes with eggs during the third”—in northern China, this is known as “gaining weight during the heat waves.”
资料图:书法家为品尝过烙饼摊鸡蛋的居民撰写“过三伏”的福字。
zī liào tú : shū fǎ jiā wéi pǐn cháng guò lào bǐng tān jī dàn de jū mín zhuàn xiě guò sān fú de fú zì .
File photo: A calligrapher writes the character “Fu” (meaning “good fortune”) with the phrase “Getting Through the Three Dog Days” for residents who have enjoyed a fried egg on a flatbread.
即便球星们依然张扬热烈,即便球迷依然热血沸腾,但工业化足球的烙印终究挥之不去。
jí biàn qiú xīng men yī rán zhāng yáng rè liè , jí biàn qiú mí yī rán rè xiě fèi téng , dàn gōng yè huà zú qiú de lào yìn zhōng jiū huī zhī bù qù .
Even though the star players remain flamboyant and passionate, and even though the fans are still fired up, the mark of industrialized soccer ultimately lingers.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 火 (fire) component
Homophones — Characters pronounced lào
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