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Mythic Mandarin

煮 (zhǔ): meaning and stroke order

煮 (zhǔ) means to cook, to boil, variant of 煮.

煮

Simplified
煮
Traditional
煮, 煑
Pinyin
zhǔ

Stroke order of 煮

煮

  • zhǔ variant of 煮[zhu3]
  • zhǔ to cook; to boil
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 煑

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 煮

  1. zhǔ
    • to cook
    • to boil
  2. zhǔ Traditional 煑
    • variant of 煮[zhu3]

Radical and structure

煮
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 13 strokes · 者 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.

煮 in our stories

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  • 随从介子推悄悄走到一边，从自己的腿上割下一块肉，煮成汤端给了他。

    suícóng Jiè Zǐtuī qiāoqiāo zǒu dào yìbiān cóng zìjǐ de tuǐ shàng gē xià yí kuài ròu zhǔ chéng tāng duān gěi le tā

    His follower Jie Zitui quietly stepped aside, cut a piece of flesh from his own thigh, and brought it to him boiled into a soup.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 侍女们以为是没煮熟，就把它们放进锅里煮。煮了很久，还是咬不动。

    shìnǚ men yǐwéi shì méi zhǔ shú jiù bǎ tāmen fàng jìn guō lǐ zhǔ zhǔ le hěn jiǔ háishi yǎo bú dòng

    The maids thought they weren't cooked enough and boiled them in a pot. After a long time they still couldn't bite into them.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 煮

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).