炊
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to cook food
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,083 U+708A
How 炊 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
火 (semantic, “fire”) + 欠 (phonetic, qiàn)
How to remember it
cook · Heisig RSH #1718
火 fire + yawn
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 欠
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 欠 (qiàn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欠 sound component | qiàn | to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn |
| 软 | ruǎn | soft, pliable, flexible; weak |
| 吹 | chuī | to blow, to puff; to brag, to boast |
| 饮 | yǐn | to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink |
| 坎 | kǎn | pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis |
| 钦 | qīn | to respect, to admire; royal |
| 砍 | kǎn | to hack, to chop, to cut, to fell |
| 嵌 | qiàn | valley, ravine; to fall into; to inlay, to set in |
| 芡 | qiàn | Gorgon plant, fox nut |
| 欿 | kǎn | sad, gloomy, discontent |
| 肷 | qiǎn | the area between the waist and hips |
Words containing 炊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巧妇难为无米之炊 | qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī | The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without e… |
| 炊事员 | chuī shì yuán | cook; kitchen worker |
| 米已成炊 | mǐ yǐ chéng chuī | lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom); fig. what is done cannot be undone |
| 食玉炊桂 | shí yù chuī guì | food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom); the cost … |
| 炊事 | chuī shì | cooking |
| 炊器 | chuī qì | cooking vessels (archaeology) |
| 炊烟 | chuī yān | smoke from kitchen chimneys |
| 野炊 | yě chuī | to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing); cookout |
| 炊具 | chuī jù | cooking utensils; cookware; cooker |
| 炊帚 | chuī zhou | pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips |
| 炊爨 | chuī cuàn | to light a fire and cook a meal |