煮 zhǔ cook

HSK 5 — advanced proficiency: 1,300 new words, 2,500 in all. You can read newspapers, enjoy films and give speeches in Chinese. In HSK 3.0, 煮 is in band 6. HSK 5 explained

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中煮。

This word means cook, as in boiling food in a pot. A friend walks into your kitchen and asks what you're doing, and you say you're making noodles. Want to try it out loud?

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Stroke order

煮 is written in 12 strokes.

煮 — the Chinese character for cook (zhǔ), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 煮 — cook

Senses

to cook
to boil

Related words

Where 煮 lives

HSK 5 list Practise HSK 3.0 · band 6 Practise Topic: Food and drink Practise

煮 is pronounced zhǔ and means “cook”.