chuī
cook
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 欠 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 炊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
cooking | ||
cookware | ||
to cook food | ||
smoke from kitchen chimneys | ||
cook |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3333rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+708A |
Shuowen | “炊,爨也。从火,吹省聲。” |
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