炒 — Chinese character
炒
chǎo
to boil, to fry, to roast, to sauté; to trade stock
- Pinyin
- chǎo
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 火 少
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 少
- Japanese
- 炒 as a kanji
Common words with 炒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 炒作 | chǎo zuò | to hype; to promote (in the media) |
| 炒股 | chǎo gǔ | (coll.) to speculate in stocks |
| 炒菜 | chǎo cài | to stir-fry; to do the cooking |
| 炒饭 (炒飯) | chǎo fàn | fried rice; (Tw) (slang) to have sex |
| 炒面 (炒麵) | chǎo miàn | stir-fried noodles; "chow mein" |
| 炒房 | chǎo fáng | to speculate in real estate |
| 翻炒 | fān chǎo | to stir-fry |
| 炒蛋 | chǎo dàn | scrambled eggs |
| 爆炒 | bào chǎo | to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame; to conduct a media blitz |
| 炒家 | chǎo jiā | speculator |
| 炒鱿鱼 (炒魷魚) | chǎo yóu yú | (coll.) to fire sb; to sack sb |
| 炒锅 (炒鍋) | chǎo guō | wok; frying pan |
English words written with 炒
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.
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