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Mythic Mandarin

慢火 (màn huǒ): meaning and stroke order

慢火 (màn huǒ) means low heat (cooking).

慢火

Simplified
慢火
Traditional
慢火 (same form)
Pinyin
màn huǒ

Stroke order of 慢火

慢

  • màn slow
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

火

  • Huǒ surname Huo
  • huǒ fire; urgent
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 慢火

  1. màn huǒ
    • low heat (cooking)

Radicals of the characters

慢
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 14 strokes · 忄 on the left, 曼 on the right
火
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 4 strokes

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.

慢火 in our stories

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  • 黄州的猪肉很便宜，富人不屑吃，穷人又不会做。苏东坡就琢磨出一种慢火炖肉的方法：少放水，火候足时它自美。

    Huángzhōu de zhūròu hěn piányi fùrén bú xiè chī qióngrén yòu bú huì zuò Sū Dōngpō jiù zuómo chū yì zhǒng mànhuǒ dùn ròu de fāngfǎ shǎo fàng shuǐ huǒhou zú shí tā zì měi

    Pork was cheap in Huangzhou; the rich wouldn't deign to eat it and the poor didn't know how to cook it. Su Dongpo worked out a way of stewing it slowly over a low fire: use little water, and when the heat has done its work it becomes delicious by itself.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 慢火

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).