zhǔ

cook

Evolution

煑 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
煑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
煑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

zhǔ

cook

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zhǔ

variant of [zhǔ]

Most common words with 煑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to cook

煮饭

to cook

煮沸

to boil

生米煮成熟饭

the rice is cooked

焚琴煮鹤

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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