Surname · Chinese
焦
“to boil; to burn; to cook; to bake”
焦 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
焦 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsjow, meaning “to boil; to burn; to cook; to bake.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsjow (“to boil; to burn; to cook; to bake”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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