熬
áoāo HSK7

cook down

熬 áo frequency
endure verb
to hold out against or suffer through a difficult period of time

他终于熬过了那段艰难的时期。

tā zhōng​yú áo guò le nà duàn jiān​nán de shí​qī.

He finally endured and got through that difficult period.

stew verb
to cook on a slow fire or extract essence through heating

她在厨房里给奶奶熬中药。

tā zài chú​fáng lǐ gěi nǎi​nai áo zhōng​yào.

She is brewing herbal medicine for her grandmother in the kitchen.

熬 āo
simmer verb
to boil; to simmer

他最喜欢吃奶奶做的熬白菜。

tā zuì xǐ​huan chī nǎi​nai zuò de āo bái​cài.

His favorite dish is the stewed cabbage his grandmother makes.

Cross-References

Has variant

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)