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The character 烘 is structured with the fire radical 火 alongside the phonetic component 共, creating a phono-semantic compound that relates to actions involving heat. Its earliest recorded meanings specify baking or drying by fire, and over time its usage expanded to include figurative applications, such as in the term 烘托 where it denotes the act of highlighting or accentuating. The character's form has always been composed of these two elements.
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我正在烘面包。
面包需要烘烤。
他用火烘干了衣服。
烘培是一门艺术。
潮湿的木材很难烘干。
烘烤食物时要注意火候。
这家面包店以传统烘培技术闻名。
先进的烘干机可以快速处理大量衣物。