chǎo

fry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

少 sound component

  Sound component

shǎoshào

  

few

Evolution

炒 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
炒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chǎo

fry, saute, roast, boil, cook; to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb)

Most common words with 炒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to sauté

炒作

to hype

炒鱿鱼

to sack sb

炒股

(coll.) to speculate in stocks

炒饭

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


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