Chinese Character Wiki

焯

chāo

boil vegetables for a very short time

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

fire

卓 sound component

卓  Sound component

zhuō, zhuó

  

profound

Evolution

焯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
焯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

焯  

chāo

boil vegetables for a very short time; scald; to blanch (cooking); to scald

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5673rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+712F

Shuowen

“焯，明也。从火，卓聲。”


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