to cook food

炊 character breakdown

surname Huo
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).
to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body)

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is pretty annoyed by Neanderthal Man (人), who is quarreling with the crane (⺈) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Neanderthal Man (人) owes the crane money, and the crane is waving with his IOU note (mnemonic symbol for 欠).

Characters with 炊 as component

炊 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 炊

to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
cooking utensils / cookware / cooker
smoke from kitchen chimneys
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
cooking vessels (archaeology)
pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
to light a fire and cook a meal
lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom) / fig. what is done cannot be undone

Sentences with 炊

炊 currently does not appear in any sentence.