炒
chǎo HSK6

fry

炒 chǎo
stir-fry verb
to sauté or stir-fry food

妈妈在厨房里炒菜。

mā​ma zài chú​fáng lǐ chǎo cài.

Mom is stir-frying dishes in the kitchen.

fire verb
to sack or dismiss someone from their job

他因为工作失误被老板炒了。

tā yīn​wèi gōng​zuò shī​wù bèi lǎo​bǎn chǎo le.

He was fired by his boss because of a mistake at work.

speculate verb
to speculate in real estate or stocks, or to scalp goods for profit

他最近一直在炒股。

tā zuì​jìn yī​zhí zài chǎo gǔ.

He has been trading stocks lately.

hype up verb
to hype up or publicize excessively to create interest

经纪公司为了提高他的知名度而大肆炒作。

jīng​jì gōng​sī wèi le tí​gāo tā de zhī​míng​dù ér dà​sì chǎo​zuò.

The management company is hyping him up to increase his popularity.

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