chǎo
fry
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 少 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 炒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to sauté | ||
to hype | ||
to sack sb | ||
(coll.) to speculate in stocks | ||
fried rice |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ](ˤ)r[e]wʔ | tsrhaewX | chǎo | to stir-fry |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 13.3269% of movies
1612th most common character in movies
2590th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+7092 |
Sources
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