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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
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  *蒸* | 蒸* | *蒸
to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old)
HSK 7-9
light refreshments / pastry / dim sum (in Cantonese cooking) / dessert
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to arrange / to handle / to cook / cuisine / art of cooking
HSK 7-9
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
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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
cooking skills / culinary talent
prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.)
cooking; culinary arts
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  *爪* | 爪* | *爪
(coll.) foot of an animal or bird / (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc
ingredients (in a cooking recipe) / to mix materials according to directions
to cook / cooking
wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
lye water; alkaline water (used in cooking)
cooking
breeze / (Tw) Japanese-style (cooking etc)
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
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
to fill with stuffing (e.g. in cooking) / stuffed
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  *烹* | 烹* | *烹
cooking method / to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China)
iron cooking pot
to ban smoking / to quit smoking / to prohibit cooking / prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
cooking wine
cooking utensils / cookware / cooker
to blend (cooking) / to mix evenly
cooking oil
to be in charge of the cooking / to be the chef / head cook / chef
to light a fire for cooking
to force-feed ducks / (cooking) stuffed duck
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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)
small flame (when cooking, simmering etc)
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  *鬲* | 鬲* | *鬲
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs
cornflour / starch powder (cooking)
stove / cooking burner
cooking starch / pasty mixture of starch and water
main ingredients (in a cooking recipe)
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  *爨* | 爨* | *爨
cooking-stove / to cook
low heat (cooking)
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  *罉* | 罉* | *罉
(dialect) cooking pot / variant of 鐺|铛
vegetable cooking oil
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
steamer (for cooking)
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen
mirin, a Japanese cooking wine
brisk heat (cooking) / (TCM) internal heat generated by anxiety
to blanch (cooking)
reused cooking oil
cooking method
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
home cooking
(dialect) intensity of the fire (in cooking, kiln firing etc)
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
illegally recycled waste cooking oil
cooking pot
support / stand / trivet / (cooking utensil) gridiron / (variant of 梔子|栀子) cape jasmine
three fresh ingredients (in cooking)
tempura / deep-fried cooking / also called 甜不辣
Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking
tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu)
base ingredient / base (cooking) / primer (paint)
stock (cooking) / base (of sauce or gravy)
to arrange / to manage / to attend to / to take care of / to look after (the cooking)
ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom) / effective government requires minimal intervention
stove / cooker / (dialect) cooking utensils
cooking vessels (archaeology)
cooking smells / (fig.) lively atmosphere
cooking method
starch solution (cooking)
claypot (used in cooking)
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)
Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
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
shortening (fat used in cooking cakes)
cooking oil / food oil
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


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