熬
áoāo HSK7

cook down

熬 áo frequency
to stay up late verb
to stay awake all night or until very late

别熬得太晚了。

bié áo de tài wǎn le.

Don't stay up too late.

to endure adjectivenoun
to hold out; to suffer through difficult times
to simmer verb
To cook over a slow fire for a long time; to decoct medicinal herbs; to extract by heating.

鸡汤熬好了吗？

jī​tāng áo hǎo le ma?

Is the chicken soup ready?

surname
a Chinese surname
熬 āo
to boil
To boil or simmer food in water, such as vegetables or fish.

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,705th most common 14.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,933rd most common 21.6 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.6 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
18.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+71AC

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)