煎 (jiān)

to pan-fry

How 煎 is written

Strokes
13
Radical
丷 — eight/divide
Traditional
煎
Simplified
煎 (unchanged)

Components

Common words using 煎

煎熬 jiānáo
to suffer; to torture; to torment
煎蛋 jiāndàn
fried egg
煎餅 jiānbing
thin pancake; CL:張|张[zhang1]
煎炒 jiānchǎo
to lightly fry
煎炸 jiānzhá
to fry
煎鍋 jiānguō
frying pan
煎餃 jiānjiǎo
fried dumpling
熬煎 áojiān
suffering; torture
生煎 shēngjiān
shengjian, a pan-fried bun filled with meat and juices, a Shanghai specialty
生煎包 shēngjiānbāo
pan-fried dumpling
蚵仔煎 ézǐjiān
oyster omelette (Taiwanese, POJ pr. [ô-á-chian])

煎 in a sentence

早餐我喜歡吃煎蛋配吐司。

Zǎocān wǒ xǐhuān chī jiāndàn pèi tǔsī.

“I like to eat pan-fried eggs with toast for breakfast.”

How common is 煎?

煎 is the 2,887th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.1% of all running text.

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