HSK 5 vocabularyHSK 3.0

炒

chǎo

to sauté; to stir-fry

HSK 5

Meaning of 炒 in English

chǎoHSK 5verbSyllabus #2123
  1. to sauté; to stir-fry
  2. to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp
  3. to hype up
  4. to sack; to fire (sb)

Example sentences

  1. 我差點就被炒魷魚了。
    wǒ chà diǎn jiù bèi chǎo yóu yú le。
    I almost got fired.
    Tatoeba #13668344 by LeviHighway · #5859017 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
  2. 你们不能炒了我们。
    nǐ men bù néng chǎo le wǒ men。
    You can't fire us.
    Tatoeba #10264346 by GlossaMatik · #3330917 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
  3. 请告诉我为什么汤姆被炒了。
    qǐng gào sù wǒ wèi shén me tāng mǔ bèi chǎo le。
    Please tell me why Tom was fired.
    Tatoeba #9953279 by GlossaMatik · #2852987 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

Sentence pinyin is generated automatically and may contain errors.

Characters

Tap the character to see its stroke order

HSK words with 炒

Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences