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- ripe; mature
- thoroughly cooked; done
- familiar; acquainted
- experienced; skilled
- (of sleep etc) deep; profound
- also pr. [shou2]
- half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled
- cultivated land
- in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)
- middle-aged man (often with connotations of confidence, success and attractiveness)
- (literary) to be very familiar with (sb or sth); well acquainted with; fully conversant with
Trad. 熟習
- to understand profoundly
- well-versed
- skillful
- practiced
- to have the knack
- Changshu, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市[Su1 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
Trad. 自來熟
- (coll.) naturally outgoing with strangers; quick to act like an old acquaintance; sb who has this trait
Trad. 駕輕就熟
- 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
Trad. 深思熟慮
- mature reflection
- after careful deliberations
- (idiom) to be familiar with; to have regular dealings with
- underripe
- half-cooked
- (fig.) not mastered (of a technique)
- clumsy
- halting
- when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
Trad. 生米熟飯
- 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.
- with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect
Trad. 熟視無睹
- (idiom) to turn a blind eye to (sth one sees regularly)
Trad. 熟詞僻義
- uncommon meaning of a common word
Trad. 耳熟能詳
- what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom)
Trad. 滾瓜爛熟
- 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
Trad. 輕車熟路
- 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 a stranger in a strange land (idiom)
- in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
Trad. 生米做成熟飯
- 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
Trad. 生米煮成熟飯
- the rice is cooked
- what's done is done
- it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
- unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
Trad. 一回生兩回熟
- see 一回生二回熟[yi1 hui2 sheng1 er4 hui2 shu2]
Trad. 一次生，兩次熟
- unfamiliar at first but you get used to it
- strangers are first meeting, but soon friends
- an acquired taste
Trad. 煮熟的鴨子飛了
- the cooked duck flew away (proverb)
- (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers