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炝

qiàng

Character Traditional 熗

What 炝 means

1. to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc
2. to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further

Characters built on 仓

These share the phonetic component 仓 (cāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 枪qiānggun; firearm; rifle
• 抢qiǎngto fight over; to rush; to scramble
• 呛qiàngto irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc); pungent
• 跄qiāngwalk rapidly
• 戗qiāngcontrary; pushing against; bump

Sounds the same

Read qiàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 呛to irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc); pungent
• 𬧀used in 踉𬧀liàng qiàng
• 跄stagger; sway from side to side