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粥

zhōu

porridge

HSK 6 · Topic “Food and Taste”
A bowl of hot porridge with steam
Memory picture

Character

粥 zhōu

Strokes
12
Radical
米 — rice, millet, grain
Made of
弓 bow 米 rice, millet, grain 弓 bow
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 胃口不好时，她只想喝一碗热粥。 Wèikǒu bù hǎo shí, tā zhǐ xiǎng hē yì wǎn rè zhōu. When she has no appetite, she only wants to drink a bowl of hot porridge.
  • 早饭我喜欢喝小米粥，配一点咸菜。 Zǎofàn wǒ xǐhuan hē xiǎomǐ zhōu, pèi yìdiǎn xiáncài. For breakfast I like to have millet porridge with a little pickled vegetables.
  • 奶奶用大米熬了一锅香喷喷的粥。 Nǎinai yòng dàmǐ áo le yì guō xiāngpēnpēn de zhōu. Grandma cooked a pot of fragrant rice porridge.

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