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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
mature; ripe / to mature; to ripen / Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
HSK 3
acquaintance / friend
HSK 3
practiced / proficient / skilled / skillful
HSK 4
to be familiar with; to know well
HSK 5
what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom)
HSK 7-9
cooked food / prepared food / deli food
(literary) to be very familiar with (sb or sth); well acquainted with; fully conversant with
unripe
with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect
cultivated land / in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)
to boil thoroughly / to cook thoroughly
to read and reread sth until one is familiar with it
worked material / chamotte (refractory ceramic material)
Changshu, county-level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州, Jiangsu
completely ripe / ripened / well-cooked
adept / skilled
mature reflection / after careful deliberations
to promote ripening of fruit
skillful / proficient
to understand profoundly / well-versed / skillful / practiced / to have the knack
to sound familiar / familiar-sounding
mature and sophisticated woman
to learn by heart; to memorize
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom) / fig. to do sth routinely and with ease / a walk in the park
to be well acquainted with / to know well
precocious; early-maturing
familiar-looking / to seem familiar
idiom
skilled person / an experienced hand
well cooked / to know thoroughly
lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy / a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
frequent visitor
familiar road / beaten track
to cure / to mature
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
careful thought
asleep / sleeping soundly
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
wrought iron
to be proficient in
underripe / half-cooked / (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) / clumsy / halting
cooked food (ready to eat)
to know sth fluently / well-versed
familiar words / known Chinese character
ripening in autumn (of crops)
to be well acquainted with
familiar road / well-trodden path
deliberation
(of wine, cheese, beef etc) to age; to mature
half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled
to swindle associates, friends or relatives
everything is unfamiliar
tree-ripe
to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
familiar with one another
to look familiar / familiar-looking
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
deli; delicatessen
skilled worker; journeyman
instant noodles
sexual maturity
medium rare (of steak)
tree-ripe
abandoned land
unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
meiosis (in sexual reproduction)
slaked lime / hydrated lime
plaster of Paris / calcined gypsum
silk raw material (prepared by boiling in soap)
skilled worker; journeyman
rare (of steak)
medium (of steak)
wet piling, aka wet pile fermentation (a stage in the production of certain types of tea, notably 熟普洱茶, ripe Pu'er tea)
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
(idiom) to be familiar with; to have regular dealings with
unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers are first meeting, but soon friends / an acquired taste
medium well (of steak)
to know a lot of people
thoroughly cooked; (of steak) well done; (of eggs) hard-boiled
hard-boiled egg
semiskilled
soft-boiled egg
Changshu, county-level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州, Jiangsu
to get familiar with
pasteurized beer
to stir-fry ingredients that have been cooked or partially cooked
familiar / close
to pay no attention to a familiar sight; to ignore
uncommon meaning of a common word
familiar road / well-trodden path
familiar
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now.


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