1 variant: 煮 zhǔ

1 to cook

2 cooking

1 cooking

2 culinary arts

1 to boil

1 to boil thoroughly

2 to cook thoroughly

1 lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)

2 fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose

1 ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom)

2 effective government requires minimal intervention

1 burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife

1 the rice is cooked

2 what's done is done

3 it's too late to change anything now (idiom)