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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
炒菜
to stir-fry
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to stir-fry
02
to do the cooking
03
stir-fried dish
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 炒菜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 炒菜 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 炒菜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 炒菜.
Directly before
- 鸡巴炒菜1
Directly after
- 炒菜时1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 炒菜
What does 炒菜 mean in Chinese?
炒菜 (chǎocài) means to stir-fry.
How do you pronounce 炒菜?
炒菜 is pronounced chǎocài.
Is 炒菜 an HSK word?
炒菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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