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烩

huì

Character Traditional 燴

What 烩 means

1. to braise
2. to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water

Example sentences

• 什么都可以放在一锅杂烩里。
  Shénme dōu kěyǐ fàng zài yī guō záhuì lǐ.
  You can put anything into a hodgepodge.
• 什幺都可以放在一锅杂烩里。
  You can put anything into a hodgepodge.

Words starting with 烩

• 烩饭huì fànrice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
• 烩面huì miànbraised noodles; stewed noodles

Words containing 烩

• 大杂烩dà zá huìmix-up; mish-mash; potpourri
• 外烩wài huì(Taiwan) catering
• 杂烩zá huìa stew; (fig.) a disparate collection

Characters built on 会

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

• 绘huìto draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 荟huìto flourish; luxuriant growth
• 刽guìto amputate; to cut off; also pr. kuài
• 桧guìChinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis); (old) coffin lid decoration; Taiwan pr. kuài

Characters that look like 烩

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

• 给gěito; for; for the benefit of
• 绘huìto draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 珀pòused in 琥珀
• 晦huì(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
• 绮qǐbeautiful; open-work silk
• 绺liǔskein; tuft; lock

Sounds the same

Read huì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 会can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet…
• 汇to remit; to converge (of rivers); to exchange
• 惠(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顾
• 慧intelligent
• 绘to draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 讳to avoid mentioning; taboo word; name of deceased emperor or superior
• 贿(bound form) bribery
• 蕙Coumarouna odorata
• 溃used in 溃脓; Taiwan pr. kuì
• 卉plants
• 诲to teach; to instruct; to induce
• 晦(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night