verb #29,925

Meanings

  1. 1 to cook sealed in salt or sand with heat
  2. 2 to bake in a closed container
  3. 3 to steam or deep-heat (hair, in beauty contexts)

Examples

Yánjújī shì Kè jiā cài de jīngdiǎn míng cài.
Salt-baked chicken is a classic dish of Hakka cuisine.
Tā qù měifà diàn jú yóu, ràng tóufa gèng liàng zé.
She went to the hair salon for a hair conditioning treatment to make her hair shinier.

Tips

culture
is a Cantonese-origin cooking term describing a technique where ingredients are sealed in hot salt, sand, or a pot and cooked by retained heat. 盐焗鸡 (salt-baked chicken) is the most famous dish using this method.

Components

radical
huǒ
fire
marks as a cooking-by-heat verb — a Cantonese coinage for sealed-pot baking, like salt-baked chicken (盐焗鸡). Same radical heads roast, grill, boil. Used in mainland menus chiefly via Cantonese cuisine.
phonetic
bureau; confined space
gives the sound jú exactly. There may be a faint semantic touch — includes a sense of "enclosed/restricted," and means cooking inside a sealed pot. But the main job is sound-matching.

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