涮 (shuàn) — to cook (thinly sliced ingredients) briefly in boiling water or soup, as in hot pot; to rinse; to trick, to fool
Definition
In cooking, 涮 means to briefly dip thin slices in boiling soup at the table (hot pot). For rinsing, it's lighter than 冲洗 or 洗涤 — just a quick swish, like rinsing vegetables before cooking. As a verb it also means to trick someone.
verb
to cook (thinly sliced ingredients) briefly in boiling water or soup, as in hot potto rinseto trickto fool
Easily confused
Examples
- 涮。Qǐng bǎ shū cài shuàn yí xià.Please rinse the vegetables.
- 涮，。Tā yòu bèi rén shuàn le, zhēn kě lián.He was tricked again — so pitiful.
- 涮。Wǒ men yì biān liáo tiān yì biān shuàn yáng ròu.We chatted while cooking lamb in the hot pot.
Origin
Sound + meaning六书liùshū
形声xíngshēngMost characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.
涮 pairs 氵 (water) with 刷 (shuā), which gives the sound.
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