炒chǎo
to stir-fry. 8 strokes, radical 火, first met in HSK 6.
How to write 炒
Strokes 1–4 write 火, then strokes 5–8 write 少.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 炒 · the stroke-order rules
What 炒 is made of
火 (huǒ, fire) and 少 (shǎo, few).
火 carries the meaning — fire — and 少 carries the sound.
Words that use 炒
| 炒 | to stir-fry 指用锅将食材快速加热烹调 市民在餐饮区品尝特色炒菜。Citizens tasted specialty stir-fried dishes in the food court. Lesson 554, 风口辨微 · 时代潮涌与砥柱中流 · Market Currents & Strategic Tenacity |
| 炒股 | to speculate in stocks 指买卖股票以获取利润 专家提醒：理性投资，切莫盲目跟风借钱炒股。Experts warned against blindly borrowing money to speculated in stocks. Lesson 554, 风口辨微 · 时代潮涌与砥柱中流 · Market Currents & Strategic Tenacity |
| 炒作 | to hype, speculatively promote 指借机制造舆论谋取利益 更要警惕不良资本借热点概念虚假恶意炒作。They warned against capital that maliciously hyped hot concepts. Lesson 554, 风口辨微 · 时代潮涌与砥柱中流 · Market Currents & Strategic Tenacity |
Characters that share the sound part 少
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 火
All 19 of them, and what the radical means, on the 火 radical page.