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Mythic Mandarin

炒 (chǎo): meaning and stroke order

炒 (chǎo) means to sauté; to stir-fry, to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp, to hype up.

炒

Simplified
炒
Traditional
炒 (same form)
Pinyin
chǎo

Stroke order of 炒

炒

  • chǎo to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 炒

  1. chǎo
    • to sauté; to stir-fry
    • to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp
    • to hype up
    • to sack; to fire (sb)

Radical and structure

炒
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 8 strokes · 火 on the left, 少 on the right

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.

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).