炒

Translingual

Han character

炒 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火火竹 (FFH), four-corner 9982₀, composition ⿰火少)

Derived characters

• 𫷴

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 667, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18915
• Dae Jaweon: page 1076, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2191, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7092

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Chinese

trad.		炒
simp. #		炒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
觘	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬	*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒	*sʰroːʔ
吵	*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖	*sm̥ʰreːws
仯	*sm̥ʰreːws
眇	*mewʔ
渺	*mewʔ
杪	*mewʔ
秒	*mewʔ
篎	*mewʔ, *mews
妙	*mews
玅	*mews
釥	*sm̥ʰewʔ
小	*smewʔ
少	*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨	*m̥ʰjewʔ
尠	*senʔ, *smos

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 炒

1. to stir fry; to sauté
2. (slang) to sack; to fire

Synonyms

• (to sack):

(deprecated template usage)

• 停生意 (⁶din-san-i) (Shanghainese, dated)
• 執包袱／执包袱 (zap¹ baau¹ fuk⁶) (Cantonese)
• 捲鋪蓋／卷铺盖 (“to be fired”) (figurative)
• 炒魷魚／炒鱿鱼 (chǎo yóuyú) (slang)
• 解僱／解雇 (jiěgù)
• 解聘 (jiěpìn)
• 解職／解职 (jiězhí)
• 走路 (zǒulù, “to be fired”) (figurative)
• 辭退／辞退 (cítuì)
• 遣散
• 開除／开除 (kāichú)
• 革除 (géchú)
• 食無情雞／食无情鸡 (sik⁶ mou⁴ cing⁴ gai¹) (Cantonese)

 

Compounds

See also

• 煸 (biān)
• 煎 (jiān)
• 炸 (zhà)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

炒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: いる (iru, 炒る); いためる (itameru, 炒める)

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Korean

Hanja

炒 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 炒 (sao, xào, xáo)

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