炊 chuī
chuī
verb
to dress food; to steam; to cook food
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Food and Drink
, Concept: Cooking 烹调
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '炊'; Guoyu '炊'; Unihan '炊')
Contained in
- 米已成炊 the rice has already been cooked; what is done cannot be undone
- 野炊 to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing); cookout
- 巧妇难为无米之炊(巧婦難為無米之炊) The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice; You won't get anywhere without equipment.
- 食玉炊桂 food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia
- 炊器 cooking vessels
- 炊爨 to light a fire and cook a meal
- 炊事 cooking
- 煎膏炊骨 to render fat and dress bone; to squeeze with cruelty
- 炊事员(炊事員) a cook; a kitchen worker
- 炊帚 pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
- 炊烟(炊煙) smoke from kitchen chimneys
- 炊具 cooking utensils; cookware; cooker
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 12
- 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
- 卷十 越絕外傳記吳王占夢第十二 Scroll 10 Yue Jue Shu 越絕書 — count: 4
- 卷二十一 趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 3
- 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 卷三 秦一 Chapter 3: Qin I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 3
- 卷第六 書證 Scroll 6: Writing The Family Instructions of Master Yan 顏氏家訓 — count: 3
- 《火部》 Huǒ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 3
- 卷四十二 列傳第二十三 王晏 蕭諶 蕭坦之 江祏 Volume 42 Biographies 23: Wang Yan, Xiao Chen, Xiao Tanzhi, Jiangshi Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 2
- 卷三十 Scroll 30 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
Collocations
- 炊饼 (炊餅) 后竊炊餅 — History of Ming 明史, 卷一百十三 列傳第一 后妃一 Volume 113 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 — count: 25
- 炊饭 (炊飯) 婢炊飯 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two — count: 12
- 晨炊 (晨炊) 乃晨炊蓐食 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮陰侯列傳》 Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin — count: 11
- 卖炊 (賣炊) 每日仍舊挑賣炊餅 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十四回 Chapter 24 — count: 10
- 炊蓐 (炊蓐) 乃晨炊蓐食 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮陰侯列傳》 Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin — count: 6
- 炊黍 (炊黍) 姊为杀鸡炊黍而不留也 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十三 魏書二十三 和常楊杜趙裴傳 Volume 23: Book of Wei 23 - Biographies of He, Chang, Yang, Du, Zhao, and Pei — count: 4
- 缔炊 (締炊) 見兩缔炊而不蒸 — Yue Jue Shu 越絕書, 卷十 越絕外傳記吳王占夢第十二 Scroll 10 — count: 4
- 炊骨 (炊骨) 炊骨易子而食之 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷六 復恩 Chapter 6: Repaying Kindness — count: 4
- 臣炊 (臣炊) 為臣炊彫胡之飯 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷三十 Scroll 30 — count: 3
- 炊食器 (炊食器) 皆廩食給薪菜鹽豉炊食器席蓐 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮南衡山列傳》 Biographies of Huainan and Hengshan — count: 3