炊 — Chinese character
炊
chuī
meal; to cook, to steam
- Pinyin
- chuī
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 火 欠
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 欠
- Japanese
- 炊 as a kanji
Common words with 炊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 炊事 | chuī shì | cooking |
| 炊具 | chuī jù | cooking utensils; cookware |
| 炊烟 (炊煙) | chuī yān | smoke from kitchen chimneys |
| 野炊 | yě chuī | to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing); cookout |
| 炊事员 (炊事員) | chuī shì yuán | cook; kitchen worker |
| 米已成炊 | mǐ yǐ chéng chuī | lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom); fig. what is done cannot be undone |
| 炊器 | chuī qì | cooking vessels (archaeology) |
| 炊帚 | chuī zhou | pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips |
| 炊爨 | chuī cuàn | to light a fire and cook a meal |
| 食玉炊桂 | shí yù chuī guì | food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom); the cost of living is very high |
English words written with 炊
炊 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
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.