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  *饭* | 饭* | *饭
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head
HSK 4
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  *烂* | 烂* | *烂
soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad
HSK 5
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  *煮* | 煮* | *煮
to cook / to boil
HSK 6
cook / chef
HSK 6
smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity
HSK 7-9
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  *熬* | 熬* | *熬
to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct / to endure
HSK 7-9
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  *煲* | 煲* | *煲
to cook slowly over a low flame / pot / saucepan
HSK 7-9
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  *嫩* | 嫩* | *嫩
young and tender / (of food) tender; lightly cooked / (of color) light / (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled
HSK 7-9
to cook
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涮* | 涮* | *涮
to rinse / to trick / to fool sb / to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)
HSK 7-9
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
HSK 7-9
to arrange / to handle / to cook / cuisine / art of cooking
HSK 7-9
to compile / to draw up / to fabricate / to invent / to concoct / to make up / to cook up
HSK 7-9
to irrigate / to pour water into / to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping) / to cook the books / to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums
cooked food / prepared food / deli food
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馇* | 馇* | *馇
to cook and stir (animal feed) / (coll.) to simmer (porridge etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焖* | 焖* | *焖
to cook in a covered vessel / to casserole / to stew
to boil thoroughly / to cook thoroughly
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
to cook on a skewer / barbecued food on a skewer / shish kebab / (fig.) to perform or play songs in sequence / sequence of songs / medley
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烩* | 烩* | *烩
to braise / to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked
to cook
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
to cook / to prepare (food)
completely ripe / ripened / well-cooked
twice-cooked pork
soft yolk (of a cooked egg)
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry
cook
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馏* | 馏* | *馏
to steam / to cook in a steamer / to reheat cold food by steaming it
to cook / cooking
to cook
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炝* | 炝* | *炝
to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc / to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further
offal / cooked minced offal / chop suey (American Chinese dish) / incoherent (information) / (derog.) asshat / jerk
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箪* | 箪* | *箪
round basket for cooked rice
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *熥* | 熥* | *熥
to heat up (cooked food) by baking or steaming / Taiwan pr. [tong1]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爨* | 爨* | *爨
cooking-stove / to cook
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
Cook (name) / Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烹* | 烹* | *烹
to boil; to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
female cook
panada; cooked flour paste / flour paste (used in crafts); batter (used in cooking) / Taiwan pr. [mian4hu2]
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
to be in charge of the cooking / to be the chef / head cook / chef
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炊* | 炊* | *炊
to cook food
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焗* | 焗* | *焗
(dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炆* | 炆* | *炆
(Cantonese) to simmer / to cook over a slow fire
cook / kitchen worker
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烀* | 烀* | *烀
to cook in a small quantity of water
well cooked / to know thoroughly
fraudulent financial accounts; cooked books
to frame sb / to cook up imaginary charges against sb
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
to invent crazy nonsense / to cook up (excuses) / to talk at random / wild babble
to cook again / to rewarm food
mess cook (old)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *膰* | 膰* | *膰
cooked meat used in sacrifice
kitchen / cook / chef
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *饔* | 饔* | *饔
(literary) cooked food / breakfast
underripe / half-cooked / (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) / clumsy / halting
cooked food (ready to eat)
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粻* | 粻* | *粻
food / white cooked rice
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *濩* | 濩* | *濩
cook / dashing of water
half-cooked / (fig.) not completely done, solved, developed etc / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *饎* | 饎* | *饎
food / to cook
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腍* | 腍* | *腍
be satiated / cooked / good-tasting
burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
authentic taste / plain cooked / natural flavor (without spices and seasonings)
half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled
onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 温玉 "ontama", which is an abbr. for 温泉玉子 "onsen tamago")
Cook Islands
to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal) / to cook
cooked white rice
"wok hei", a distinctive smoky, charred, and slightly caramelized flavor imparted to food cooked in a wok over a high flame (orthographic borrowing from Cantonese, Jyutping: wok6 hei3)
(literary) lit. breakfast and supper / fig. cooked food
onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water)
to cook
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
to light a fire and cook a meal
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
(of food) to be cooked just until no longer raw
Mt Cook on New Zealand South Island, national park and highest peak
to put into the pot (to cook)
imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)
to pour heated oil and seasonings over food (e.g. a cooked fish)
lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom) / fig. what is done cannot be undone
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
kitchen helper; assistant cook
to cook / to boil
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)

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