炒
to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp; to hype up; to sack; to fire (sb)
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How 炒 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
火 (semantic, “fire”) + 少 (phonetic, shǎo)
How to remember it
stir-fry · Heisig RSH #1547
火 fire + 少 few
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 少
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 少 (shǎo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound component | shǎo | few, little; less; inadequate |
| 沙 | shā | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated |
| 省 | shěng | province; frugal; to save, to leave out |
| 妙 | miào | mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful |
| 抄 | chāo | copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize |
| 纱 | shā | gauze, muslin, yarn |
| 秒 | miǎo | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time |
| 钞 | chāo | bank note, paper money; to counterfeit |
| 吵 | chǎo | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb |
| 耖 | chào | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |
Words containing 炒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 炒地皮 | chǎo dì pí | to speculate in building land |
| 生炒热卖 | shēng chǎo rè mài | to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no tim… |
| 丁丁炒面 | dīng dīng chǎo miàn | chopped fried noodles |
| 热炒热卖 | rè chǎo rè mài | lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned; enthusiasm … |
| 鸡蛋炒饭 | jī dàn chǎo fàn | egg fried rice |
| 炒鸡蛋 | chǎo jī dàn | scrambled eggs |
| 扬州炒饭 | Yáng zhōu chǎo fàn | Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typ… |
| 现炒现卖 | xiàn chǎo xiàn mài | lit. to fry and sell on the spot; fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowl… |
| 炒家 | chǎo jiā | speculator |
| 炒面 | chǎo miàn | stir-fried noodles; "chow mein" |
| 炒作 | chǎo zuò | to hype; to promote (in the media) |
| 蛋炒饭 | dàn chǎo fàn | egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables) |
| 清炒 | qīng chǎo | to stir-fry; to saute |
| 炒冷饭 | chǎo lěng fàn | to stir-fry leftover rice; fig. to rehash the same story; to serve up the same old product |
| 炒信 | chǎo xìn | (of a business operator) to inflate one's reputation by dishonest means (e.g. posting fake… |
| 炒热 | chǎo rè | to raise prices by speculation; to hype |
| 热炒 | rè chǎo | stir-fried dish (Tw) |
| 炒米 | chǎo mǐ | fried rice; millet stir-fried in butter |
| 炒菜 | chǎo cài | to stir-fry; to do the cooking; stir-fried dish |
| 快炒店 | kuài chǎo diàn | (Tw) low-budget eatery |