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馇

餷
chā
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (dialectal) to cook while stirring (porridge, animal feed)
  2. 2 used in 饹馇, a starch pancake snack

Examples

奶奶在灶台边馇猪食。
Nǎinai zài zào tái biān chā zhū shí.
Grandmother is at the stove cooking and stirring the pig feed.

Tips

history
馇 has no general standalone use. It is a northern dialect verb for cooking-while-stirring, and also appears in the food name 饹馇 (gēzha), a fried mung-bean starch snack, where it takes a neutral tone.
register
Dialectal and culinary; standard Chinese uses 煮 or 熬 for cooking porridge.

Components

radical
饣 shí
food; eat
饣 is the food radical, a left-side form of 食, marking the character as cooking-related.
phonetic
查 chá
to check; investigate
查 supplies the sound, with the tone shifting from 查 to 馇.

Stroke Order

馇 chā