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炊

chuī

HSK 6 Character

What 炊 means

1. to cook food

Example sentences

• 玛丽拒绝洗炊具，汤姆注定会闹肚子。
  Tom's bout with diarrhea was foreordained due to Mary's refusal to clean any cookware.

Words starting with 炊

• 炊烟chuī yānsmoke from kitchen chimneys
• 炊事员chuī shì yuáncook; kitchen worker
• 炊具chuī jùcooking utensils; cookware; cooker
• 炊事chuī shìcooking
• 炊器chuī qìcooking vessels (archaeology)
• 炊帚chuī zhoupot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
• 炊爨chuī cuànto light a fire and cook a meal

Words containing 炊

• 野炊yě chuīto cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing); cookout
• 米已成炊mǐ yǐ chéng chuīlit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom); fig. what is done cannot be undone
• 食玉炊桂shí yù chuī guìfood is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)…
• 巧妇难为无米之炊qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuīThe cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom)…

Characters that look like 炊

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 政zhèngpolitical; politics; government
• 欧ōuohm (abbr. for 欧姆; euro (abbr. for 欧元; used in transliteration
• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)
• 拨bōto push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 纹wénline; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
• 坎kǎnpit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦

Sounds the same

Read chuī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 吹to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast