What 燙 means
It marks painful heat or heat used deliberately.
燙傷 is a scald; 燙髮 is a perm. In cooking, 燙 means briefly boiling food.
The 2024 Ministry of Education entry says 燙 is absent from 說文. There was no single inventor: 火 marks heat and 湯 supplies the sound. Its source trail includes 龍龕手鑑 (997) and 四聲篇海 (1208); a bronze graph looks identical but wrote another word.
Neutral inside compounds; alarming alone.
Do not translate every 燙 as “burn”.
Who writes 燙
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA scald.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 燙 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 燙
- Also called
- 烫
- Search it as
- tang · tang4 · scald · burn · perm · iron · blanch
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
燙CSS
\71D9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
燙
HTML hex
燙
CSS content
content: "\71D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%87%99
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On screen
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Code points
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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.