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an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
to arrange / to handle / to cook / cuisine / art of cooking
HSK 7-9
light refreshments / pastry / dim sum (in Cantonese cooking) / dessert
HSK 7-9
cooking; culinary arts
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine
cooking skills / culinary talent
prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.)
ingredients (in a cooking recipe) / to mix materials according to directions
cooking method
main ingredients (in a cooking recipe)
to fill with stuffing (e.g. in cooking) / stuffed
to seal (with an official stamp) / to stamp / (fig.) to ratify / to put a lid on (a cooking pot) / to cap / to build an extension or additional story
three fresh ingredients (in cooking)
breeze / (Tw) Japanese-style (cooking etc)
vegetable cooking oil
iron cooking pot
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
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  *烫* | 烫* | *烫
to scald / to burn (by scalding) / to blanch (cooking) / to heat (sth) up in hot water / to perm / to iron / scalding hot
HSK 7-9
to ban smoking / to quit smoking / to prohibit cooking / prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
to cook / cooking
(dialect) intensity of the fire (in cooking, kiln firing etc)
illegally recycled waste cooking oil
steamer (for cooking)
smoke point (of a cooking oil)
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  *鼎* | 鼎* | *鼎
ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
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  *鬲* | 鬲* | *鬲
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs
to force-feed ducks / (cooking) stuffed duck
ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom) / effective government requires minimal intervention
base ingredient / base (cooking) / primer (paint)
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
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  *酿* | 酿* | *酿
to ferment / to brew / to make honey (of bees) / to lead to / to form gradually / wine / stuffed vegetables (cooking method)
low heat (cooking)
cooking utensils / cookware / cooker
wok spatula; cooking spatula
to be in charge of the cooking / to be the chef / head cook / chef
cooking wine
to light a fire for cooking
home cooking
cooking pot
to open fire; to start shooting / to light the flame (for cooking)
cornflour / starch powder (cooking)
wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
rolls of dried soymilk cream (used in cooking after being rehydrated)
tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu)
panada; cooked flour paste / flour paste (used in crafts); batter (used in cooking) / Taiwan pr. [mian4hu2]
stock (cooking) / base (of sauce or gravy)
cooking starch / pasty mixture of starch and water
small flame (when cooking, simmering etc)
cooking oil
cooking oil
cooking smells / (fig.) lively atmosphere
stove / cooking burner
reused cooking oil
Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking
shortening (fat used in cooking cakes)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蒸* | 蒸* | *蒸
to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old)
HSK 7-9
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
cooking method
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
to blanch (cooking)
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
typhoon shelter (a cove where boats shelter from strong winds and rough seas, esp. in Hong Kong) / (attributive) typhoon shelter-style, a cooking method associated with those who lived on boats in the coves, where crab, prawn or other meat is fried and flavored with spices and black beans
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
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  *爪* | 爪* | *爪
(coll.) foot of an animal or bird / (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc
mirin, a Japanese cooking wine
starch solution (cooking)
cooking
stove / cooker / (dialect) cooking utensils
to arrange / to manage / to attend to / to take care of / to look after (the cooking)
cooking vessels (archaeology)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爨* | 爨* | *爨
cooking-stove / to cook
claypot (used in cooking)
to blend (cooking) / to mix evenly
(literary) stalk of a bean plant (when dried, used as a cooking fuel)
lye water; alkaline water (used in cooking)
brisk heat (cooking) / (TCM) internal heat generated by anxiety
support / stand / trivet / (cooking utensil) gridiron / (variant of 梔子|栀子) cape jasmine
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  *罉* | 罉* | *罉
(dialect) cooking pot / variant of 鐺|铛


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