煎
fry lightly; steep; decoction times
Meanings
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to pan-fry; to shallow-fry
Common home cooking technique, used for firm foods like fish, tofu, or eggs.
Mom pan-fried fish for dinner tonight.
Pan-fried tofu is one of my favorite home-cooked dishes.
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Please fry two eggs for me, don't overcook them.
The pan-seared steak at this restaurant is extremely delicious.
Pan-fried dumplings are a very popular breakfast in northern China.
verb
to steep; to decoct
Used for making tea, extracting medicinal ingredients from herbs, or boiling flavorings.
Grandpa is decocting herbal medicine to treat his cough.
She steeped a cup of jasmine tea with warm water.
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The water temperature should not be too high when brewing coffee.
Traditional Chinese doctors will repeatedly decoct herbal ingredients.
I'll make you a pot of dried tangerine peel water to stimulate your appetite.
measure word
decoction batch; boil times
formalUsed to count how many times a batch of herbal medicine has been boiled, typically 2-3 times per prescription.
This herbal prescription needs to be decocted twice to extract all active ingredients.
The first decoction has the highest concentration and the strongest medicinal effect.
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The doctor said this treatment only requires one batch of decocted medicine.
The second decoction can be mixed with the first and taken in two doses.
Some valuable herbal ingredients need to be decocted three times to be fully utilized.