烧

shāo

to burn

to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head

fire (火) + 尧 = to burn, cook, or heat

火 anchors everything hot — burning, boiling, roasting. 尧 is mainly phonetic, lending the shāo sound without shaping the meaning.

火+尧→烧

尧A classical name meaning loftyPhonetic

火FireSemantic

野火烧不尽，春风吹又生

yě huǒ shāo bù jìn , chūn fēng chuī yòu shēng

lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb)

铜锣烧

tóng luó shāo

dorayaki (a Japanese confection)

锅烧意面

guō shāo yì miàn

nabeyaki egg noodles

铁板烧

tiě bǎn shāo

teppanyaki

高烧

gāo shāo

fever

鲷鱼烧

diāo yú shāo

taiyaki, Japanese-style waffle made with a fish-shaped mold, typically filled with a sweet bean paste

串烧

chuàn shāo

to cook on a skewer

低烧

dī shāo

a low fever (up to 38°C)

全烧祭

quán shāo jì

burnt offering (Judaism)

叉烧

chā shāo

char siu

叉烧包

chā shāo bāo

steamed bun stuffed with skewer-roasted pork

寿喜烧

shòu xǐ shāo

sukiyaki