煮

zhǔ

HSK 6freq #2829

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

zhǔ

1.to cook
2.to boil

zhǔ

1.variant of 煮[zhǔ]

CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA

Wiktionary

1.to boil; to cook
2.a surname, Zhu

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tjaʔ): phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ) + semantic 灬 (“fire”) – to cook over a fire.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Stroke order

Components

煮者灬

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

她煮了蛋。
She boiled the eggs.
你在煮什麼?
What are you cooking?
妈妈煮了十只蛋。
My mother boiled ten eggs.
湯姆正在煮菠菜。
Tom is cooking spinach.
我們會煮一些肉。
We'll cook some meat.
你要我煮咖啡嗎?
Do you want me to make coffee?

Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR

More examples & usage (AI)

Synonyms

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Related words

煮沸 to boil 煮开 to boil (food)煮饭 to cook 烹煮 to cook 煮熟 to boil thoroughly 煮法 cooking method 烧煮 to cook 煮锅 cooking pot 煮蛋 boiled egg 煮硬 to hard-boil (eggs)炖煮 to stew 关东煮 oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth