炊(chuī): to cook food
HSK 7-98 strokes
to cook food
Stroke order animation
Character information
- Pinyin
- chuī
- Meaning
- to cook food
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 7-9
- Traditional
- Same
Origin & structure
Where 炊 comes from and how its parts fit together.
How to write 炊 step by step
8 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.
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Words with 炊
Common words using 炊 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.
yě野chuī炊
HSK 7-9to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing)
Open 野炊 page →food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)
Open 食玉炊桂 page →Related characters
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