炒
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to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp; to hype up; to sack; to fire (sb)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 火 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 炒
- Common rank
- #1,652
- Unicode
- U+7092
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 炒
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 炒地皮 | to speculate in building land | |
| 生炒热卖 | to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no tim… | |
| 丁丁炒面 | chopped fried noodles | |
| 热炒热卖 | lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned; enthusiasm … | |
| 鸡蛋炒饭 | egg fried rice | |
| 炒鸡蛋 | scrambled eggs | |
| 扬州炒饭 | Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typ… | |
| 现炒现卖 | lit. to fry and sell on the spot; fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowl… | |
| 炒家 | speculator | |
| 炒面 | stir-fried noodles; "chow mein" | |
| 炒作 | to hype; to promote (in the media) | |
| 蛋炒饭 | egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables) | |
| 清炒 | to stir-fry; to saute | |
| 炒冷饭 | to stir-fry leftover rice; fig. to rehash the same story; to serve up the same old product | |
| 炒信 | (of a business operator) to inflate one's reputation by dishonest means (e.g. posting fake… | |
| 炒热 | to raise prices by speculation; to hype | |
| 热炒 | stir-fried dish (Tw) | |
| 炒米 | fried rice; millet stir-fried in butter | |
| 炒菜 | to stir-fry; to do the cooking; stir-fried dish | |
| 快炒店 | (Tw) low-budget eatery |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 少 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound part | few, little; less; inadequate | |
| 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 省 | province; frugal; to save, to leave out | |
| 妙 | mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful | |
| 抄 | copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize | |
| 纱 | gauze, muslin, yarn | |
| 秒 | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time | |
| 钞 | bank note, paper money; to counterfeit | |
| 吵 | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb | |
| 耖 | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |