炒
chǎo HSK6

fry

炒 chǎo
to fire verb
To dismiss someone from their job; to sack.

你还是被炒了。

nǐ hái​shi bèi chǎo le.

You're still fired.

to stir-fry verb
To sauté or stir-fry food in a pan with a small amount of oil; also used to mean parching or roasting dry ingredients over heat.

鸡蛋炒得可好吃了。

jī​dàn chǎo de kě hǎo​chī le.

The scrambled eggs are delicious.

to make a noise noun
(Literary) to make a commotion; to quarrel.
to speculate
To buy and sell assets for a quick profit, such as in stocks, foreign exchange, or real estate

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,590th most common 16.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,612th most common 36.5 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
43.2 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
48.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+7092

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