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炊chuī
  • to cook food
🖌️ 炊 Strokes
野yě炊chuī
  • to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing)
  • cookout
🖌️ 野 Strokes 🖌️ 炊 Strokes
炊chuī事shì
  • cooking
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 事 Strokes
炊chuī具jù
  • cooking utensils
  • cookware
  • cooker
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 具 Strokes
炊chuī器qì
  • cooking vessels (archaeology)
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 器 Strokes
炊chuī帚zhou
  • pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 帚 Strokes
炊chuī烟yān
Trad. 炊煙
  • smoke from kitchen chimneys
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 烟 Strokes
炊chuī爨cuàn
  • to light a fire and cook a meal
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 爨 Strokes
炊chuī事shì员yuán
Trad. 炊事員
  • cook
  • kitchen worker
🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 事 Strokes 🖌️ 员 Strokes
食shí玉yù炊chuī桂guì
  • food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)
  • the cost of living is very high
🖌️ 食 Strokes 🖌️ 玉 Strokes 🖌️ 炊 Strokes 🖌️ 桂 Strokes
米mǐ已yǐ成chéng炊chuī
  • lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom)
  • fig. what is done cannot be undone
🖌️ 米 Strokes 🖌️ 已 Strokes 🖌️ 成 Strokes 🖌️ 炊 Strokes
巧qiǎo妇fù难nán为wéi无wú米mǐ之zhī炊chuī
Trad. 巧婦難為無米之炊
  • The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
🖌️ 巧 Strokes 🖌️ 妇 Strokes 🖌️ 难 Strokes 🖌️ 为 Strokes 🖌️ 无 Strokes 🖌️ 米 Strokes 🖌️ 之 Strokes 🖌️ 炊 Strokes

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