What 烫 means
烫 describes heat that can burn or scald through contact; it can also mean heating or scalding something. 热 is broader, while 烫 stresses heat felt on contact.
Traditional 燙 contains 湯, a hot-water character defined that way in Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, and recorded in Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. A matching bronze graph on the Zhongshan King Round Pot meant “replace”; that is a different word.
What does 烫知识 mean?
It is a playful riff on 热知识 (“hot knowledge”), sometimes sarcastic.
A 2026 discussion among Chinese learners notes a sarcastic reading; the surrounding sentence shows whether it is teasing or a put-down.
Who writes 烫
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1A hot potato: a difficult problem nobody wants to take on.
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How to type or find 烫
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- 烫 meaning · 烫 vs 热 · 烫 vs 燙 · 烫伤 · 烫手山芋 · 烫知识
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烫CSS
\70EBCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
烫
HTML hex
烫
CSS content
content: "\70EB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%83%AB
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On screen
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.