zyu2煮
Jyutpingzyu2
Yalejyú
Definition
To cook; to prepare food.
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How it's used
While 煮 is the general term for cooking, it is most commonly paired with 餸 to refer to preparing a meal. It implies the act of heating ingredients on a stove, so it is rarely used for baking or preparing cold dishes like salads. When talking about rice specifically, people often use 煲飯 instead of 煮飯, though 煮飯 is still widely understood as the general act of preparing dinner.
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Common mistake
Learners often use 煮 for any food preparation, but it specifically implies heat-based cooking. If you are just assembling a sandwich or tossing a salad, you would use 整 instead.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
