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炊 [chuī]
【动】
【本义】烧火做饭
1. 同本义 ([En.] cook meal)
- 烧火做饭:~事。~烟。巧妇难为无米之~。
(Cooking: prepare meals, cooking smoke. A good cook cannot make a meal without rice.)
2. 烧火 ([En.] fire)
- 例: 炊桂 (Firewood is scarce and valuable, like cinnamon. Metaphor for a hard life where basic necessities are hard to obtain); 炊骨 (Burn human bones).
【引】
1. 《公羊传》:析骸而炊之。 (From "Gongyang Zhuan": Chop up the bones and cook them.)
2. 《汉书·枚乘传》:一人炊之。 (From "Han Shu, Biography of Mei Cheng": One person cooks for him.)
3. 《史记·封禅书》:先炊之属。注:“先炊,古炊母之神也。” (From "Records of the Grand Historian": First belongs to the cooking deities. Note: "The first cooking refers to the ancient goddess of cooking.")
4. 杜甫《石壕吏》:急应河阳役,犹得备晨炊。 (From Du Fu's "The Officer of Shigang": Urgently respond to the HeYang task, still manage to prepare breakfast.)
【例】
如:
炊米 (cook rice)
炊人 (cook, chef)
炊妇 (woman who cooks)
吹家子 (person in ancient military who is in charge of cooking)
吹沙成饭 (like trying to make food from sand – metaphor for fruitless effort)
【造字法】形声。从火,吹省声。
(Construction method of the character: it is a phonetic and semantic compound; the radical means 'fire', the sound is taken from 'blow'.)
*参见「炊累 」条。
smoke curling up from kitchen chimneys / Smoke from the kitchen chimney wreathed over the cottage. / smoke spiraling from kitchens / Somke is spiralling upward from kitchens chimneys.
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