燒

to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head

surname Yao / Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake

to burn / to set on fire

to invite trouble

a low fever (up to 38°C)

nuée ardente / hot cloud of volcanic ash

to calcine (purify by heating)

restless with anxiety / unbearably hot and anxious

to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person

yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)

lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency

to roast / to bake (e.g. mineral ore)

teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)

steamed bun stuffed with skewer-roasted pork

to cook on a skewer / barbecued food on a skewer / shish kebab / (fig.) to perform or play songs in sequence / sequence of songs / medley

burnt offering (Judaism)

char siu / barbecued pork

roast pork bun / cha siu baau

sukiyaki

lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble / doing things at the last minute / to make a hasty last-minute effort (often refers to cramming for exams)

stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling