Memory phrase for the character: 烫

烫

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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
 
The soup from the fire is: hot and you will burn.

Radicals

汤 soupThe 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 fireAlso this radical 灬 stands for fire.
氵 Water
易 easy, changeAt the top the sun 日 and below its shining 勿: This makes it easy!
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 Vocabulary

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  

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