熬 — Chinese character
熬
áo
to boil, to simmer; to endure pain
- Pinyin
- áo
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 敖 灬
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 灬; sound component 敖
- Japanese
- 熬 as a kanji
Common words with 熬
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 煎熬 | jiān áo | to suffer; to torture |
| 熬夜 | áo yè | to stay up late or all night |
| 难熬 (難熬) | nán áo | (of pain or hardship) hard to bear |
| 苦熬 | kǔ áo | to endure (years of suffering) |
| 熬出头 (熬出頭) | áo chū tóu | to break clear of all the troubles and hardships; to achieve success |
| 熬煎 | áo jiān | suffering; torture |
| 熬药 (熬藥) | áo yào | to decoct medicinal herbs |
| 熬更守夜 | áo gēng shǒu yè | to stay up through the night (idiom) |
| 熬稃 | áo fū | (old) popped glutinous rice (term used during the Song dynasty) |
| 熬膏 | áo gāo | to simmer to a paste |
| 熬头儿 (熬頭兒) | áo tou r | (coll.) the reward of one's efforts; the light at the end of the tunnel |
English words written with 熬
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.