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油炸 (yóu zhá) — deep-fry; deep-fried

Definition

Cooking verb/adjective meaning 'deep-fry' / 'deep-fried' — food fully submerged in hot oil. Pairs with food nouns (油炸鸡块, 油炸食品); not for stir-frying or pan-frying.

deep-frydeep-fried

Examples

  • 油炸。
    Zhè dào cài xū yào yóu zhá yí xià.
    This dish needs to be deep-fried briefly.
  • 油炸。
    yóu zhá Shí pǐn yào shǎo chī.
    You should eat less deep-fried food.
  • 油炸？
    Nǐ chī guò yóu zhá jī kuài ma?
    Have you ever eaten deep-fried chicken nuggets?

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

油yóuoil
炸zhàfry

“油” oil + “炸” fry gives frying in oil.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
氵Written in full as水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
由
由yóu油yóu
Same sound today

油 is built from 氵, a water part, and 由, which supplies the sound.

Open 油 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 炸 →
Appears in
HSK 2.0 Level 5

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