煑
zhǔ
cook
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Most common words with 煑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to cook | ||
to cook | ||
to boil | ||
the rice is cooked | ||
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]aʔ | tsyoX | zhǔ | boil, cook |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.6817% of movies
2063rd most common character in movies
2582nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7151 |
Shuowen | “，孚也。从，者聲。煮，或从火；，或从水在其中。” |
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