炊帚
chuī zhou
Pinyin

Definition

炊帚
 - 
chuī zhou
  1. pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips

Character Decomposition

Related Words (9)

扫帚
sào zhou
  1. 1 broom
炊烟
chuī yān
  1. 1 smoke from kitchen chimneys
炊
chuī
  1. 1 to cook food
炊事员
chuī shì yuán
  1. 1 cook
  2. 2 kitchen worker
炊具
chuī jù
  1. 1 cooking utensils
  2. 2 cookware
  3. 3 cooker
笤帚
tiáo zhou
  1. 1 whisk broom
  2. 2 small broom
  3. 3 CL:把[bǎ]
野炊
yě chuī
  1. 1 to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing)
  2. 2 cookout
扫帚星
sào zhou xīng
  1. 1 comet
  2. 2 jinx
  3. 3 bearer of ill luck
炊事
chuī shì
  1. 1 cooking

Idioms (5)

巧妇难为无米之炊
qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī
  1. 1 The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
敝帚千金
bì zhǒu qiān jīn
  1. 1 lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value
  2. 2 I wouldn't be parted with it for anything.
敝帚自珍
bì zhǒu zì zhēn
  1. 1 to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own
  2. 2 a sentimental attachment
米已成炊
mǐ yǐ chéng chuī
  1. 1 lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. what is done cannot be undone
食玉炊桂
shí yù chuī guì
  1. 1 food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)
  2. 2 the cost of living is very high

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