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Pronunciation

Mandarin	zhǔ
Cantonese (Jyutping)	zyu2
Japanese Kun	niru, nieru
Japanese On	sha, sho
Korean (Hangul)	자
Korean (Yale)	ca

Meaning

Definition

cook

Character Rank

Traditional	2131
Simplified	2784
常用字表	2527
Hong Kong Grade Level	1
HSK v.3 Level	6

Common Words With This Character  

煮饭	zhǔfàn	to cook
煮沸	zhǔfèi	to boil
生米煮成熟饭	shēngmǐ zhǔ chéngshú fàn	the rice is cooked; what's done is done; it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
焚琴煮鹤	fén qín zhǔ hè	lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonly beautiful things
煮豆燃萁	zhǔ dòu rán qí	burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife

Related Characters

Kangxi Radical	火 (#86:fire)
Semantic	煑
Historical Variant	煑
Same Structure & Phonetic Component	(Sign-in required)

Computer Encoding

Unicode	U+716E
Big 5	B54E
GB2312	D6F3

Input Method Codes

Cangjie	jaf
Four Corner	4433.6
WuBi 86	ftjo
WuBi 98	ftjo