煮
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to cook; to boil
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 火 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 煮
- Common rank
- #2,342
- Unicode
- U+716E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
boil · Heisig RSH #2307
puppet + cooking fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 煮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 煮蛋计时器 | egg timer | |
| 生米煮成熟饭 | the rice is cooked; what's done is done; it's too late to change anything now (idiom) | |
| 煮熟的鸭子飞了 | the cooked duck flew away (proverb); (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers | |
| 水煮鱼 | Sichuan poached sliced fish in hot chili oil | |
| 关东煮 | oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc i… | |
| 家庭煮夫 | househusband | |
| 水煮蛋 | boiled egg | |
| 温水煮青蛙 | (fig.) introducing change incrementally so that it arouses little resistance; gradual chan… | |
| 煮法 | cooking method | |
| 煮开 | to boil (food) | |
| 煮蛋 | boiled egg | |
| 煮饭 | to cook | |
| 快煮壶 | electric kettle (Tw) | |
| 煮熟 | to boil thoroughly; to cook thoroughly | |
| 烧煮 | to cook | |
| 煮锅 | cooking pot | |
| 焚琴煮鹤 | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonl… | |
| 煮豆燃萁 | burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife | |
| 煮沸 | to boil | |
| 烹煮 | to cook; to boil |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound part | that which; they who; those who | |
| 都 | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital | |
| 猪 | pig, hog, wild boar | |
| 诸 | all, many, various; surname | |
| 著 | to show, to prove, to make known | |
| 署 | bureau, public office; to sign | |
| 赌 | to bet, to gamble, to wager | |
| 绪 | mental state; thread, clue | |
| 屠 | to butcher, to slaughter; massacre | |
| 暑 | hot; heat; summer | |
| 堵 | wall; to stop, to prevent, to block | |
| 奢 | exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful | |
| 睹 | to look at, to gaze at; to observe | |
| 渚 | islet, sandbar | |
| 箸 | chopsticks | |
| 褚 | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname | |
| 赭 | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown | |
| 啫 | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning | |
| 楮 | mulberry; paper |