熬 áo
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áo
verb
to simmer; to cook slowly; to stew
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: Also pronounced āo (ABC 'áo' 熬 v 1, p. 8; Guoyu '熬' āo v 1; Kroll 2015 '熬' 1a, p. 4; Mathews 1931 '熬', p. 8; NCCED '熬' 1; Unihan '熬') -
áo
verb
to endure
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'áo' 熬 v 3, p. 8; Guoyu '熬' v 2; Mathews 1931 '熬', p. 8; NCCED '熬' 3; Unihan '熬') -
áo
verb
to extract slowly by heating; to decoct
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'áo' 熬 v 2, p. 8; Kroll 2015 '熬' 1a, p. 4; Mathews 1931 '熬', p. 8; NCCED '熬' 2) -
áo
verb
to stay up all night
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 熬夜 (ABC 'áo' 熬 v 4, p. 8; Mathews 1931 '熬', p. 8; NCCED '熬' 2) -
áo
verb
to roast
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '熬' áo v 1; Kroll 2015 '熬' 1, p. 4)
Contained in
- 煎熬 to suffer; to torture; to torment ; to simmer
- 媳妇熬成婆(媳婦熬成婆) even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law; the oppressed will become the oppressor
- 熬出头(熬出頭) to break clear of all the troubles and hardships; to achieve success; to make it
- 熬头儿(熬頭兒) the reward of one's efforts; the light at the end of the tunnel
- 煎汤熬药(煎湯熬藥) to decoct herbal medicine
- 熬粥 to cook congee
- 熬煎 to persecute; to endure persecution
- 熬不过(熬不過) unable to endure
- 熬眼皮子 to stay up all night
- 煮熬 to boil
- 熬炼(熬煉) to boil and smelt
- 熬更守夜 to stay up through the night
- 熬膏 to simmer to a paste
- 熬煮 to simmer (water)
- 熬夜 to stay up all night
- 难熬(難熬) hard to bear; unendurable (pain, suffering)
- 打熬 to work nightshift ; to phyiscal exercise ; to endure
- 苦熬 to endure (years of suffering)
- 熬药(熬藥) to decoct herbal medicine
- 熬稃 puffed grain; popped wheat; popcorn
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十三 魏二 Chapter 23: Wei II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 4
- 第二回 Chapter 87 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 4
- 第二回 Chapter 45 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 4
- 第二回 Chapter 25 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 《內則》 The Pattern of the Family The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 3
- 第五十七回 Chapter 57 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 卷七十 傅常鄭甘陳段傳 Volume 70: Fu, Chang, Zheng, Gan, Chen and Duan Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
- 卷一 本紀第一 武帝上 Volume 1: Emperor Wu 1 Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 2
- 卷四十一 列傳第二十二 張融 周顒 Volume 41 Biographies 22: Zhang Rong, Zhou Yong Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 2
- 第八十六回 Chapter 86 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
Collocations
- 熬熬 (熬熬) 熬熬苦之 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十 傅常鄭甘陳段傳 Volume 70: Fu, Chang, Zheng, Gan, Chen and Duan — count: 6
- 熬波 (熬波) 熬波出素 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷四十一 列傳第二十二 張融 周顒 Volume 41 Biographies 22: Zhang Rong, Zhou Yong — count: 5
- 熬油 (熬油) 請加熬油羹一钅幵 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷7 志第2 禮儀二 Volume 7 Treatises 2: Rites 2 — count: 3
- 设熬 (設熬) 设熬 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 士丧礼 第十二 12. Mourning rites for the common officer — count: 3
- 淳熬 (淳熬) 淳熬 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《內則》 The Pattern of the Family — count: 2
- 熬日月 (熬日月) 養性修真熬日月 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第十七回 Chapter 17 — count: 2
- 境熬 (境熬) 闔境熬然 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷31 列傳第23 韋孝寬 韋敻 梁士彥 Volume 31 Biographies 23: Wei Xiaokuan; Wei Xiong; Liang Shiyan — count: 2
- 将来熬 (將來熬) 將來熬的環哥兒大了 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 25 — count: 2
- 屋里熬 (屋裡熬) 我這屋里熬油似的熬了這麼大年紀 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 55 — count: 2
- 熬谷 (熬谷) 熬穀 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 2