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HSK
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
cook / chef
HSK 6
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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head
HSK 4
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
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  *饭* | 饭* | *饭
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
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  *煮* | 煮* | *煮
to cook / to boil
HSK 6
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  *烂* | 烂* | *烂
soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad
HSK 5
to keep the books; to do the accounts; (in context) to cook the books
to arrange / to handle / to cook / cuisine / art of cooking
HSK 7-9
way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
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  *腍* | 腍* | *腍
be satiated / cooked / good-tasting
to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal) / to cook
to cook on a skewer / barbecued food on a skewer / shish kebab / (fig.) to perform or play songs in sequence / sequence of songs / medley
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
twice-cooked pork
cooked food / prepared food / deli food
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  *涮* | 涮* | *涮
to rinse; to swish (in water) / to trick; to fool sb / to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)
HSK 7-9
to cook
HSK 7-9
to cook / to boil
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
to cook
mess cook (old)
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
cook
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
authentic taste / plain cooked / natural flavor (without spices and seasonings)
to cook / to prepare (food)
smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity
HSK 7-9
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  *熬* | 熬* | *熬
to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct / to endure
HSK 7-9
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned / enthusiasm of the new convert
offal / cooked minced offal / chop suey (American Chinese dish) / incoherent (information) / (derog.) asshat / jerk
to compile / to draw up / to fabricate / to invent / to concoct / to make up / to cook up
HSK 7-9
thoroughly cooked; (of steak) well done; (of eggs) hard-boiled
to cook
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  *煲* | 煲* | *煲
to cook slowly over a low flame / pot / saucepan
HSK 7-9
fraudulent financial accounts; cooked books
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
HSK 7-9
to put into the pot (to cook)
to irrigate / to pour water into / to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping) / to cook the books / to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums
to cook / cooking
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  *嫩* | 嫩* | *嫩
young and tender / (of food) tender; lightly cooked / (of color) light / (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled
HSK 7-9
instant-boiled mutton; thinly sliced mutton cooked briefly in a hot pot
cooked noodles cooled with cold water
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
half-cooked rice / (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
to cook
Cook Islands
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
to eat hot pot; to cook thinly sliced meat briefly in boiling broth at the table
soft yolk (of a cooked egg)
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  *焖* | 焖* | *焖
to cook in a covered vessel / to casserole / to stew
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  *炊* | 炊* | *炊
to cook food
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled
grain of cooked rice
underripe / half-cooked / (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) / clumsy / halting
half-cooked / (fig.) not completely done, solved, developed etc / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5]
female cook
onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water)
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  *馇* | 馇* | *馇
to cook and stir (animal feed) / (coll.) to simmer (porridge etc)
Cook (name) / Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
to be in charge of the cooking / to be the chef / head cook / chef
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  *饪* | 饪* | *饪
cooked food / to cook (until ready)
(dialect) cook; chef
to boil thoroughly / to cook thoroughly
cooked food (ready to eat)
panada; cooked flour paste / flour paste (used in crafts); batter (used in cooking) / Taiwan pr. [mian4hu2]
completely ripe / ripened / well-cooked
pot of cooked rice
"wok hei", a distinctive smoky, charred, and slightly caramelized flavor imparted to food cooked in a wok over a high flame (orthographic borrowing from Cantonese, Jyutping: wok6 hei3)
kitchen / cook / chef
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  *烀* | 烀* | *烀
to cook in a small quantity of water
lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom) / fig. what is done cannot be undone
well cooked / to know thoroughly
imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)
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  *烩* | 烩* | *烩
to braise / to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
cooked white rice
to pour heated oil and seasonings over food (e.g. a cooked fish)
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  *饔* | 饔* | *饔
(literary) cooked food / breakfast
(literary) lit. breakfast and supper / fig. cooked food
to frame sb / to cook up imaginary charges against sb
to cook again / to rewarm food
cooked black soybean as animal fodder
to stir-fry ingredients that have been cooked or partially cooked
(of food) to be cooked just until no longer raw
soft-scrambled egg (cooked until smooth and tender)
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry
kitchen helper; assistant cook
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.
to invent crazy nonsense / to cook up (excuses) / to talk at random / wild babble
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  *焗* | 焗* | *焗
(dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake
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  *烹* | 烹* | *烹
to boil; to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
mung bean cake (pastry with a rounded top, containing a sweet or savory filling made with cooked mung beans)

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