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Meaning of

Pinyin chuī
Radical
Strokes
8
Definition
dress food / to steam / to cook food
Usage
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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。
chuī yān
smoke from kitchen chimneys
chuī shì yuán
cook / kitchen worker
chuī shì
cooking
chuī jù
cooking utensils / cookware / cooker
chá chuī
tea-urn
chuī shì bān
cooking team
qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
chuī yān niǎo niǎo
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.
wú mǐ zhī chuī
lacking the necessary materials one cannot accomplish one's intentions
yě chuī
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
chuī shì bān zhǎng
Cooking squad leader
duàn chuī
run out of rice and fuel / can't keep the pot boiling / go hungry

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Cangjie
fno
Zhengma
uoro
Four Corner
97882
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