Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- chǎo
English
- fry, saute, roast, boil, cook
- to sauté; to stir-fry
- (verb) 1. to argue; 2. to fight with
- to stir-fry
- to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp
- to speculate
- to hype up
- to fire; to sack; to lay off
- to sack; to fire (sb)
- (usually of matches or games) to win by a large margin
- to fail; to perform badly
- to have an argument; to have a row
- (of vehicles or trains) to crash; to hit something
- to take a photo
粵語
- 煮嘢食嘅方式，將嘢食擺喺鑊入面翻嚟翻去，直至煮熟
- 即係炒賣，（投機性質嘅）投資，透過低買高賣嘅手段嚟賺快錢
- 解僱（見炒魷魚）
- 喺比賽入面，大比數噉贏；類似數
- 失敗（見炒粉）
- 嗌交
- 撞車；撞到嘢
- 攝影
As a component in
Words containing 炒
- 炒作caau2 zok3
to hype
- 炒家caau2 gaa1
speculator
- 炒車caau2 ce1
car crash (spoken)
- 炒米caau2 mai5
fried rice
- 炒更caau2 gaang1
to moonlight
- 炒熱caau2 jit6
to raise prices by speculation
- 炒賣caau2 maai6
'flipping', to buy and resell assets quickly to make profits
- 清炒cing1 caau2
to stir-fry
- 炒樓caau2 lau2
property speculation
- 炒飯caau2 faan6
fried rice
- 炒麪caau2 min6
stir-fried noodles
- 炒蛋caau2 daan2
scrambled eggs
- 翻炒faan1 caau2
to stir-fry
- 炒粉caau2 fan2
(food) stir-fried rice noodles
- 炒魷魚caau2 jau4 jyu2
(coll.) to fire sb
- 炒友caau2 jau2
speculator in stock market or any investments
- 攬炒laam2 caau2
(Hong Kong) to seek mutual destruction
- 搏炒bok3 caau2
risking one's job (spoken)
- 炒股票caau2 gu2 piu3
to speculate in stocks
- 高炒gou1 caau2
high-angle shot, usually used in the context of taking selfies or taking photos for friends to post on social media
- 炒起caau2 hei2
to fight; to beat up; to kick someone [colloquial]
- 生炒saang1 caau2
stir-fried the ingredients from raw
- 帶炒daai3 caau2
to mislead someone to crash into a trap in car racing [colloquial]
- 炒魷caau2 jau2
to be dismissed or fired from work (spoken)