烘烤 (hōng kǎo) — to bake (with dry heat, e.g. in an oven); to toast (bread, coffee beans, etc.)

Definition

A verb meaning 'to bake or roast with dry heat' (in an oven, or for coffee beans). 烤 alone is more common and general; 烘烤 emphasizes the slow, dry-heat method.

verb
to bake (with dry heat, e.g. in an oven)to toast (bread, coffee beans, etc.)

Examples

  • 烘烤
    Mā ma zhèng zài chú fáng lǐ hōng kǎo dàn gāo.
    Mom is baking a cake in the kitchen.
  • 烘烤
    Bǎ miàn bāo piàn fàng jìn kǎo xiāng hōng kǎo wǔ fēn zhōng.
    Put the bread slices in the oven and bake for five minutes.
  • 烘烤
    Zhè jiā kā fēi guǎn yòng de kā fēi dòu dōu shì zì jǐ hōng kǎo de.
    The coffee beans used in this café are all roasted in-house.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

hōngdry with heat

烘 and 烤 both involve dry heat, together meaning to bake or toast.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
Sound part声符shēngfú
kǎokǎo
Same sound today

烤 pairs 火 (fire) with 考, which supplies the sound; the fire part is used because the meaning involves heat or roasting.

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