HSK 5 · Food

煮 zhǔ “to boil” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 煮 means

  1. to boil
  2. to cook

How to say 煮

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale煮zhǔ3rd tone, dipping

煮 in a sentence

  1. 我给我们煮了些咖啡。

    Wǒ gěi wǒmen zhǔ le xiē kāfēi.

    I’ve made us some coffee.

    Sentence #9963193 from Tatoeba

  2. 让我们来煮土豆吧！

    Ràng wǒmen lái zhǔ tǔdòu ba!

    Let’s boil some potatoes!

    Sentence #9970762 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你在煮什么？

    Nǐ zài zhǔ shénme?

    What are you cooking?

    Sentence #910233 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 煮 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 煮 (zhǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
煮zhǔto cook
  • 者that which · zhěSound part
  • 灬fire form of 火 · huǒMeaning part

灬 hints at the meaning (fire); 者 (zhě) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhǔ.

How to write 煮

煮 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

煮 (zhǔ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 煮 (zhǔ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 煮

More words: Food & Dining

宴会yànhuì · banquet营养yíngyǎng · nutrition油炸yóuzhá · to deep fry玉米yùmǐ · corn馋chán · greedy (for food)盛chéng · to fill (a bowl)橙chéng · orange (fruit)蛋白质dànbáizhì · protein

FAQs

煮 (zhǔ) means “to boil” or “to cook”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhǔ: zhǔ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 煮 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 煮 from the suggestions. Typing zhu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
煮 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.