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烧

to burn

烧
shāo1st tone
Pinyin
shāo
Strokes
10
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 烧

烧 is written with 10 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

Usage

那些人烧了自己的家 / 那里还有烧过的木头 — the clue that matches Caesar.

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烧 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

书里也说:罗马人来了,那些人烧了自己的家。

The book also says: when the Romans came, those people burned their own homes.

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