煮 (zhǔ)
to cook; to boil
How 煮 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 耂 — old
- Traditional
- 煮
- Simplified
- 煮 (unchanged)
Components
- 耂 old
- 日 sun/day
- 灬 fire
Common words using 煮
- 煮沸 zhǔfèi
- to boil
- 煮熟 zhǔshóu
- boil
- 煮開 zhǔkāi
- to boil (food)
- 水煮蛋 shuǐzhǔdàn
- boiled egg; soft-boiled egg
- 烹煮 pēngzhǔ
- to cook; to boil
- 煮法 zhǔfǎ
- cooking method
- 煮蛋 zhǔdàn
- boiled egg
- 煮鍋 zhǔguō
- cooking pot
- 燒煮 shāozhǔ
- to cook
煮 in a sentence
媽媽正在廚房煮晚餐。
Māma zhèngzài chúfáng zhǔ wǎncān.
“Mom is in the kitchen cooking dinner.”
How common is 煮?
煮 is the 2,577th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.6% of all running text.
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