Character: 炊
Modern (Beijing) reading: chuī
Preclassic Old Chinese: thoj
Classic Old Chinese: thwaj
Western Han Chinese: thwaj
Eastern Han Chinese: ćhwe
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćhwe
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćhwe
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćhwe
Middle Chinese: ćhwe
English meaning : to boil, prepare food [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: варить (стряпать, готовить) пищу; разводить огонь (для готовки); [chuì] надвигаться (о тучах пыли)
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is xuy; cf. also Viet. xôi 'to steam (rice); steamed glutinous rice'.
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 4839
Karlgren code: 0030 b
Vietnamese reading: sôi
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