熬 (áo): meaning and stroke order
熬 (áo) means to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct, to endure, to boil; to simmer.
熬
- Simplified
- 熬
- Traditional
- 熬 (same form)
- Pinyin
- áo · āo
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Stroke order of 熬
熬
- āo to boil; to simmer
- áo to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
- 14 strokes
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Meaning of 熬
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áo
- to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct
- to endure
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āo
- to boil; to simmer
Radical and structure
- 熬
- Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 14 strokes · 敖 on top, 灬 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 熬
- 熬夜 áo yè to stay up late or all night
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).