Chinese Character Wiki

烘

hōng

bake

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 共 represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

共 sound component

共  Sound component

gòng

  

together with

Evolution

烘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
烘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

烘  

hōng

bake, roast; dry by fire; to bake; to heat by fire; to set off by contrast

Most common words with 烘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

烘

to bake

烘干

to dry over a stove

烘烤

to roast

烘焙

to bake

烘托

backdrop

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.3798% of movies

2611th most common character in movies

3266th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+70D8

Shuowen

“烘，尞也。从火，共聲。”


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