煠 (yè) · (classical) to fry in fat or oil

Meanings

1 (classical) to fry in fat or oil
2 (classical) to scald or blanch in boiling liquid

Characters

煠

yè

to deep-fry; to scald

Examples

HSK 7-9

古食谱里煠指用油炸或焯烫。

Gǔ shípǔ lǐ yè zhǐ yòng yóu zhá huò chāo tàng.

In old cookery texts this character means to deep-fry or to blanch food.

Tips

history

煠 is not used in standard modern Chinese; it is a classical and dialectal cooking verb for deep-frying or scalding (still seen in some regional menus, read like 炸). It is the fire radical 火 plus the phonetic 枼, the phonetic also in 碟 and 蝶.

register

Classical and dialectal only; standard modern Chinese uses 炸 for deep-frying.