| shāo | to burn/to cook/to stew/to bake/to roast/fever |
| 烧 | to burn to cook to stew |
| 烧伤 | burn (injury) |
| 烧到 | to have a fever reaching (a certain temperature) |
| 烧制 | to fire (in a kiln) |
| 烧包 | to forget oneself in extravagance to burn money |
| 烧化 | burn-off; flashing |
| 烧卖 | shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling also written 燒麥|烧麦 |
| 烧味 | siu mei spit-roasted meat dish in Cantonese cuisine |
| 烧坏 | burnout; burn out; burning-out; burning off; sparkwear |
| 烧埋 | to bury funeral rites |
| 烧夷弹 | fire bomb incendiary device |
| 烧完 | afterburning; aftercombustion; burn itself away |
| 烧开 | boil |
| 烧录 | to burn (a CD or DVD) |
| 烧录机 | CD burner |
| 烧心 | to worry |
| 烧成 | baking; calcination; firing; maturing |
| 烧成炭 | charr |
| 烧掉 | to burn to char to cremate |
| 烧料 | frit |