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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

煮开

zhǔkāi

to boil (food)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to boil (food)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 煮开 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 煮开 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

将大锅的水给煮开。jiāng dà guō de shuǐ gěi zhǔ kāi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

搞定!接下来就把火调小,别让它煮开,等着大家过来就好了。gǎo dìng! jiē xià lái jiù bǎ huǒ diào xiǎo, bié ràng tā zhǔ kāi, děng zhe dà jiā guò lái jiù hǎo le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 煮开.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 煮开.

Directly before

  • 给煮开1
  • 它煮开1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 煮开

What does 煮开 mean in Chinese?

煮开 (zhǔkāi) means to boil (food).

How do you pronounce 煮开?

煮开 is pronounced zhǔkāi.

Is 煮开 an HSK word?

煮开 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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