Chinese symbol for “concoct”
炮制
páo zhì
Traditional: 炮製
to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce
The closest CC-CEDICT match for concoct is 炮制 (páo zhì), defined as: to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce; to process; processing and curing (Chinese medicine).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “concoct”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 臆造 | yì zào | to concoct; to dream up |
| 编造 (編造) | biān zào | to compile; to draw up |
| 配制 (配製) | pèi zhì | to compound (medicines etc); to prepare (by mixing ingredients) |
| 胡编 (胡編) | hú biān | to make things up; to concoct (a story, an excuse etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 炮制.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大炮 (大砲) | dà pào | big gun; cannon |
| 炮弹 (炮彈) | pào dàn | artillery shell; measure word: 枚 (méi) |
| 火炮 | huǒ pào | cannon; gun |
| 炮击 (炮擊) | pào jī | to shell; to bombard |
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
| 限制 | xiàn zhì | to restrict; to limit |
| 制作 (製作) | zhì zuò | to make; to manufacture |
See also: Japanese symbol for “concoct”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.