English
- cook down, to boil
- to simmer; to boil slowly
- to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct
- endure
- to endure
- to stew
- to endure; to hold out; to suffer
粵語
- 用文火慢煮，以減少食材水分，甚至乾身
- 同捱
As a component in
Words containing 熬
- 熬夜ngou4 je2
to stay up late or all night
- 煎熬zin1 ngou4
to suffer
- 熬出頭ngaau4 ceot1 tau4
to break clear of all the troubles and hardships
- 熬藥ngou4 joek6
to decoct medicinal herbs
- 熬底ngaau4 dai2
to chicken out [colloquial]
- 熬粥ngou4 zuk1
to boil porridge; to talk for a long time on the phone
- 熬老襯ngaau4 lou5 can3
an expression used by fellow criminals to mock fellow criminals who have gone 'straight' to earn a living through honest means [colloquial]
- 難熬naan4 ngou4
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
- 苦熬fu2 ngou4
to endure (years of suffering)
- 熬煎ngou4 zin1
suffering
- 熬膏ngou4 gou1
to simmer to a paste
- 熬頭兒ngou4 tau4 ji4
(coll.) the reward of one's efforts
- 熬更守夜ngaau4 gaang1 sau2 je6
to stay up through the night (idiom)
- 熬稃ngou4 fu1
(old) popped glutinous rice (term used during the Song dynasty)
- 熬龜膠ngaau4 gwai1 gaau1
- 媳婦熬成婆sik1 fu5 ngou4 sing4 po4
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
- 多年媳婦熬成婆do1 nin4 sik1 fu5 ngou4 sing4 po4
see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xi2 fu4 ao4 cheng2 po2]