燒

音読おんよみ: ショウ

訓読くんよみ: やく・やける

画数かくすう: 16

部首ぶしゅ: 火（ひへん）

Meaning

Burn / Grill / Roast / Scorch

  • Basic forms
  • 焼く — to bake; to grill; to burn / base form
  • 焼きます — bake; grill / masu form
  • 焼いた — baked; grilled; burned / ta form
  • 焼いて — bake and …; grill and … / te-form
  • 焼かない — do not bake; do not burn / negative form
  • 焼けば — if (you) bake; if it burns / conditional
  • 焼け・焼きなさい — bake it!; grill it! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 魚を焼く — grill fish
  • 肉を焼く — grill meat
  • パンを焼いた — baked bread
  • More
  • 焼こう — let’s bake; let’s grill / 〜よう form
  • 焼かなかった — didn’t bake / past negative
  • 焼いている — is baking; is grilling / progressive

焼く（やく） is a godan verb ending in く. It is commonly used for cooking (grilling or baking food) as well as for burning, such as パンを焼く (bake bread) or 紙を焼く (burn paper).

  • 焼肉やきにく — grilled meat
  • 焼鳥やきとり — grilled chicken skewers
  • 全焼ぜんしょう — total destruction by fire
  • 半焼はんしょう — partial burning
  • 燃焼ねんしょう — combustion
  • 焼失しょうしつ — loss by fire

燒 is the traditional form of 焼 and includes the 火 (fire) radical. It reflects heating, roasting, or cooking something. In modern usage, 焼 is more common, but the traditional form 燒 may still appear in names or historical texts.

パンを焼やくのが 好すきです。
I like baking bread.

この家いえは 火事かじで焼やけました。
This house was burned down in a fire.

バーベキューで肉にくを焼やいた。
I grilled meat at the barbecue.

肉
Creates
焼肉やきにく — grilled meat. ➡️
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