How to say "char" in Japanese

• 焦げるこげるJLPT N2approx.Common
  ichidan verb, intransitive verbCovers the intransitive sense: something burns, scorches, or chars on its own. Use it when food or material blackens, as in toast left too long under the grill.
  あーあ、トーストが真っ黒まっくろに焦こげてしまっているよ。↗

  Oh, the toast is burned black.
• 焦がすこがすJLPT N2approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbCovers the transitive sense: to burn, scorch, or char something. Use it when someone's action causes the burning, such as charring a pan or singeing one's clothes.
  その亡命者ぼうめいしゃは故国ここくへの思おもいに胸むねを焦こがした。↗

  The exile yearned for his home.

Use 「焦げる」 for the intransitive sense of something charring or getting scorched, and 「焦がす」 for the transitive sense of charring or burning something.

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• 焦げるこげるto burn
• 焦がすこがすto burn
• いわなchar (esp. the Japanese char, Salvelinus pluvius)