煎
to pan fry; to sauté
13 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,444 U+714E
How 煎 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
灬 (semantic, “fire”) + 前 (phonetic, qián)
How to remember it
saute · Heisig RSH #1627
前 in front + cooking fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 前
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 前 (qián) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 前 sound component | qián | in front, forward; former, preceding |
| 箭 | jiàn | arrow; a type of bamboo |
| 剪 | jiǎn | scissors; to cut, to divide, to separate |
| 湔 | jiān | to wash, to cleanse; to purge |
| 翦 | jiǎn | scissors; to cut, to clip; to annihilate |
Words containing 煎
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水煎包 | shuǐ jiān bāo | pan-fried bun (covered and steamed after pan-frying), usually with pork or vegetable filli… |
| 生煎包 | shēng jiān bāo | pan-fried dumpling |
| 煎炸食品 | jiān zhá shí pǐn | fried food |
| 滚油煎心 | gǔn yóu jiān xīn | to suffer mental anguish (idiom) |
| 煎蛋卷 | jiān dàn juǎn | omelet |
| 生煎 | shēng jiān | shengjian, a pan-fried bun filled with meat and juices, a Shanghai specialty |
| 煎炸油 | jiān zhá yóu | frying oil |
| 煎蛋 | jiān dàn | fried egg |
| 煎牛扒 | jiān niú bā | beef steak |
| 煎锅 | jiān guō | frying pan |
| 煎饼 | jiān bǐng | jianbing, a savory Chinese crêpe; pancake; CL:張|张[zhang1] |
| 煎炸 | jiān zhá | to fry |
| 煎猪扒 | jiān zhū bā | pork steak |
| 煎炒 | jiān chǎo | to lightly fry |
| 峇拉煎 | bā lā jiān | (loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste) |
| 焙煎 | bèi jiān | to dry and roast over a low fire (tea, chestnuts, seaweed etc); to torrefy |
| 煎熬 | jiān áo | to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment |
| 熬煎 | áo jiān | suffering; torture |
| 煎饺 | jiān jiǎo | fried dumpling |
| 蚵仔煎 | é zǐ jiān | (Tw) oyster omelette (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ô-á-tsian]) |