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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爆* | 爆* | *爆
to explode or burst / to quick fry or quick boil
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炒* | 炒* | *炒
to sauté; to stir-fry / to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp / to hype up / to sack; to fire (sb)
HSK 6
fried potato chips
HSK 6
french fries / french fried potatoes / chips
HSK 6
boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炸* | 炸* | *炸
to deep fry / (coll.) to blanch (a vegetable) / Taiwan pr. [zha4]
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *煎* | 煎* | *煎
to pan fry / to sauté
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲲* | 鲲* | *鲲
fry (newly hatched fish) / legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏
fried dough twist (crisp snack food made by deep-frying plaited dough) / worn out or worn smooth (of clothes)
to deep fry
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
fried chicken
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *秧* | 秧* | *秧
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) to raise; to cultivate (plants or animals)
fried egg
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
fried dumpling / potsticker
stir-fried noodles / "chow mein"
fry / newly hatched fish
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *煸* | 煸* | *煸
to stir-fry before broiling or stewing
deep-fried fish
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
frying pan
deep-fried doughcake / oilcake (animal fodder)
to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame / to conduct a media blitz / to manipulate a stock market through large-scale buying and selling
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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)
fried rice / millet stir-fried in butter
wok / frying pan
deep fried tripe
sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut into blocks
youtiao (deep-fried breadstick) / CL: / slick and sly person
(bird species of China) brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) / (fig.) small fry
crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker
fried glutinous rice dough cake
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *氽* | 氽* | *氽
to float / to deep-fry
breaded and fried cutlet (loanword via Cantonese)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焌* | 焌* | *焌
to extinguish a burning object / to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette) / to stir-fry / to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *熘* | 熘* | *熘
quick-fry / sim. to stir-frying, but with cornstarch added / also written
stir-fried dish (Tw)
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铛* | 铛* | *铛
frying pan / griddle
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *煠* | 煠* | *煠
to fry in fat or oil / to scald
to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom) / out of the frying pan into the fire
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粩* | 粩* | *粩
a traditional pastry of Taiwan and Fujian which is fried, then coated with maltose and rolled in sesame seeds or chopped peanuts etc / Taiwan pr. [lao3]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子|馓子
rank and file member of an outlaw gang / (fig.) underling; minion; small fry
crisp-fried
fry / newly hatched fish
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
fried dumpling
to stir-fry in a small quantity of oil
fried beans, Sichuan style
frying pan
to stir-fry
(dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao; deep-fried cruller
chive pocket, savory pan-fried turnover stuffed with garlic chives and other ingredients (usually contains scrambled eggs)
deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura")
crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉)
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
a kind of flat cake made from bean flour, often cut up and fried
deep-fried noodle cake
stir-fried pork, favorite of Northern Song writer Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼, a.k.a. Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡
dish consisting of stir-fried potato, eggplant and green pepper
tempura / deep-fried cooking / also called 甜不辣
pork strips stir-fried with yuxiang 魚香|鱼香
crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炝* | 炝* | *炝
to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc / to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further
(Tw) deep-fried food
pan-fried dumpling
shengjian, a pan-fried bun filled with meat and juices, a Shanghai specialty
to fry
to stir-fry / to saute
fried egg; sunny-side-up egg
fried food
egg fried rice
fried tofu (cubes)
Japanese-style fried food, usually chicken (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 唐揚げ "karaage")
french fries / (hot) potato chips
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
omurice, Japanese dish consisting of an omelet wrapped around fried rice and often topped with ketchup
chopped fried noodles
(Tw) a square sheet of pastry, typically pan-fried and served with savory fillings or sweet jam
stir-fried diced pork
holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum) (loanword from Thai "kaphrao") (used as an attributive in the names of Thai-style "phat kaphrao" dishes to indicate that the main ingredient is stir-fried with basil, as in 打拋豬|打抛猪, stir-fried pork with basil)
stir-fried pork with basil; pork phat kaphrao
to lightly fry
lit. to fry and sell on the spot / fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
poached egg / egg fried on both sides
stir-fried radish cake; chai tow kway
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
General Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish
to stir-fry
wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling / coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
to sauté / bubbles that appear in the oil when deep-frying
fried sticky rice

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