炖
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to stew
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 火 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 炖
- Common rank
- #3,644
- Unicode
- U+7096
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 炖
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 清炖 | to stew meat without seasoning | |
| 炖菜 | a stew | |
| 炖肉 | to stew meat; stewed meat | |
| 炖饭 | risotto | |
| 炖锅 | stew pot; stew pan; saucepan | |
| 炖煮 | to stew | |
| 馄炖 | see 餛飩|馄饨[hun2 tun5] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 屯 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屯 sound part | village, hamlet; camp; station | |
| 顿 | to pause; to bow; to arrange | |
| 纯 | pure, clean; simple, genuine | |
| 吨 | a metric ton | |
| 钝 | blunt, obtuse; dull, flat; dim-witted | |
| 囤 | grain basket; to store, to hoard | |
| 沌 | chaotic, confused; murky, turbid | |
| 盹 | to doze, to nap, to nod off | |
| 砘 | a kind of farm tool | |
| 窀 | to bury | |
| 饨 | stuffed dumplings | |
| 肫 | gizzard; honest, sincere |