烧 shāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 — fire, flame
- Made of
- 火 fire, flame 尧 a legendary ancient emperor-sage
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
烧毁
shāohuǐ
to burn down; to destroy by fire
Characters in this word
毁 huǐ
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 殳 — tool, weapon
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 火灾烧毁了仓库内的大量医疗物资，损失仍在统计中。 Huǒzāi shāohuǐ le cāngkù nèi de dàliàng yīliáo wùzī, sǔnshī réng zài tǒngjì zhōng. The fire destroyed a large quantity of medical supplies in the warehouse, and the losses are still being calculated.
- 一场大火烧毁了整座古老的木屋。 Yī chǎng dàhuǒ shāohuǐle zhěng zuò gǔlǎo de mùwū. A big fire burned down the entire old wooden house.
- 为了保密，这些旧文件必须烧毁。 Wèile bǎomì, zhèxiē jiù wénjiàn bìxū shāohuǐ. For confidentiality, these old documents must be burned.
Related words
- 发烧 fāshāo to have a fever
- 燃烧 ránshāo to burn
- 烧 shāo to burn; to heat
- 焚烧 fénshāo to burn; to incinerate
- 摧毁 cuīhuǐ to destroy; to demolish; to wreck
- 毁 huǐ to destroy; to ruin
- 毁坏 huǐhuài to damage; to destroy
- 毁灭 huǐmiè to destroy; to annihilate
- 销毁 xiāohuǐ to destroy; to dispose of officially
- 丧生 sàngshēng to lose one's life; to die
- 空难 kōngnàn air disaster; plane crash
- 惊险 jīngxiǎn thrilling; dangerous