烫 — Chinese character
烫
tàng
to scald; to iron clothes or hair
- Pinyin
- tàng
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 汤 火
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 汤
- Traditional
- 燙
Common words with 烫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烫伤 (燙傷) | tàng shāng | to scald |
| 滚烫 (滾燙) | gǔn tàng | boiling hot |
| 烫手山芋 (燙手山芋) | tàng shǒu shān yù | (fig.) hot potato |
| 烫发 (燙髮) | tàng fà | perm (hairstyle) |
| 熨烫 (熨燙) | yùn tàng | to iron (clothes) |
| 烫手 (燙手) | tàng shǒu | burning hot to touch |
| 发烫 (發燙) | fā tàng | burning hot |
| 烫金 (燙金) | tàng jīn | (printing) to stamp with gold foil; to bronze |
| 麻辣烫 (麻辣燙) | má là tàng | malatang (a Sichuan-style spicy soup dish) |
| 火烫 (火燙) | huǒ tàng | burning hot; fiery |
| 烫头发 (燙頭髮) | tàng tóu fa | perm; to perm hair |
| 烫衣 (燙衣) | tàng yī | to iron (clothes) |
English words written with 烫
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.