煮zhǔ
to boil, cook. 12 strokes, radical 灬, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin zhǔStrokes 12Radical 灬Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 煮
Strokes 1–8 write 者, then strokes 9–12 write 灬.
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 煮 · the stroke-order rules
What 煮 is made of
者 (zhě, that which) and 灬 (huǒ, fire).
灬 carries the meaning — fire — and 者 carries the sound.
Words that use 煮
| 煮 | to boil, cook 指把食物放水里加热做熟 后台有人正煮着一锅粥，香味飘进了大厅。Backstage someone was boiling a pot of porridge. Lesson 692, 珠宝主角 · 洞明经世与乐居安邦 · Clarity of Vision & Harmonious Living |
Characters that share the sound part 者
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 灬
All 9 of them, and what the radical means, on the 灬 radical page.