Memory phrase for the character: 烫
烫
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
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The soup from 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!
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Vocabulary
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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
