厨
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kitchen
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 厂 +10
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 厨
- Common rank
- #2,173
- Unicode
- U+53A8
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Formation & memory
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Words with 厨
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 行政总厨 | executive chef | |
| 厨师长 | executive chef; head chef | |
| 中央厨房 | central kitchen | |
| 大厨 | chef | |
| 厨子 | cook | |
| 下厨 | to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal); to cook | |
| 主厨 | chef; to be the chef | |
| 厨工 | kitchen helper; assistant cook | |
| 神厨 | master chef | |
| 后厨 | the kitchen area of a restaurant | |
| 厨师 | cook; chef | |
| 明厨亮灶 | "transparent kitchen" – a kitchen (in a restaurant, school cafeteria etc) in which food pr… | |
| 厨房 | kitchen; CL:間|间[jian1] | |
| 厨司 | (dialect) cook; chef | |
| 厨卫 | kitchens and bathrooms | |
| 厨余 | kitchen waste; food waste (recycling) | |
| 厨具 | kitchen implements | |
| 厨艺 | cooking skills; culinary talent | |
| 君子远庖厨 | lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius); fig. a nobleman who has … | |
| 掌厨 | to prepare meals; chef |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 豆 — compare how they read.