炒 chǎo
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 火 — fire, flame
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
炒作
chǎozuò
to hype; to sensationalise
Characters in this word
作 zuò
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 乍 first time, for the first time, suddenly
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 一些机构通过制造焦虑来炒作所谓的稀缺名额。 Yìxiē jīgòu tōngguò zhìzào jiāolǜ lái chǎozuò suǒwèi de xīquē míngé. Some organisations manufacture anxiety in order to hype so-called scarce places.
- 这家餐厅的名气是靠炒作出来的，味道其实很普通。 Zhè jiā cāntīng de míngqi shì kào chǎozuò chūlai de, wèidào qíshí hěn pǔtōng. This restaurant's fame was built on hype; the food is actually quite ordinary.
- 媒体不断炒作这件小事，让它变成了大新闻。 Méitǐ búduàn chǎozuò zhè jiàn xiǎoshì, ràng tā biànchéng le dà xīnwén. The media kept hyping this small matter until it became big news.
Related words
- 炒股 chǎogǔ to speculate in stocks
- 动作 dòngzuò movement, action
- 工作 gōngzuò to work; work, job
- 叫作 jiàozuò to be called
- 作家 zuòjiā writer
- 作文 zuòwén composition
- 作业 zuòyè homework
- 作用 zuòyòng role; effect
- 创作 chuàngzuò to create art; creative work
- 合作 hézuò to cooperate
- 写作 xiězuò writing; to write
- 制作 zhìzuò to make; to create