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The character '烤', which means to roast or bake, is a phono-semantic compound consisting of the fire radical '火' on the left, indicating its association with heat and cooking methods involving direct fire, and the component '考' on the right, which primarily provides phonetic guidance while historically bearing separate meanings related to examination or aging. Its construction explicitly ties the character to the application of dry heat in food preparation, and since its formation, '烤' has consistently referred to this specific culinary technique without significant semantic shift or broadening, maintaining a straightforward representation through its unchanged structural composition.
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我喜欢烤面包。
他烤了鸡肉。
我们在花园里烤肉。
烤箱里的蛋糕烤好了。
夏天烧烤派对很有趣。
她用慢火烤红薯，味道更甜。
如果你烤鱼时间太长，它会变得很干。
经过精心烤制的牛排，外焦里嫩，深受食客喜爱。