IDENTITY
厨chúkitchen
HSK 4Top 1650
CORE MEANING
kitchen
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.kitchenHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 厂cliff radical (hǎn)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿸厂𭔰
- the room
- gives the sound chú (historical)
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
厨房chúfángkitchen
厨师chúshīchef
Graded examples
厨房里有香味。Chúfáng lǐ yǒu xiāngwèi.HSK4
There is a nice smell in the kitchen.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 橱
LEARNING
Memory aid
The room (厂) of pots and beans (豆) — the kitchen. (From 廚.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1650
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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