熬 (āo)
to simmer; to endure; to stay up late
How 熬 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 龶 — N/A
- Traditional
- 熬
- Simplified
- 熬 (unchanged)
Components
- 龶 N/A
- 一 one
- 丿 bend
- ㇆ N/A
- ⺙ knock
- 灬 fire
熬 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- āo
- to boil; to simmer
- áo
- to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
Common words using 熬
- 煎熬 jiānáo
- to suffer; to torture; to torment
- 熬夜 áoyè
- to stay up late or all night
- 熬煎 áojiān
- suffering; torture
- 熬藥 áoyào
- to decoct medicinal herbs
- 苦熬 kǔáo
- to endure (years of suffering)
- 難熬 nánáo
- hard to bear; unendurable (pain, suffering)
熬 in a sentence
為了準備考試，他昨天熬夜到很晚。
Wèile zhǔnbèi kǎoshì, tā zuótiān áoyè dào hěn wǎn.
“To prepare for the exam, he stayed up very late last night.”
How common is 熬?
熬 is the 2,699th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.8% of all running text.
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