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to cook a meal: 炊飯，舉炊 ditto;
斷炊 go without meals (penniless);
巧婦難為無米之炊 even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal without rice;
炊沙作飯 cook sand for meal－futile undertaking;
炊金饌玉 eat luxurious food.
2.炊火 [chui1huo3], n., see [chui1yan1]↓.
3.炊臼 [chui1jiu4], phr., to lose a wife (to “cook in mortar” in absence of cauldron (釜) [fu3], a pun upon 婦 [fu4], wife).
4.炊帚 [chui1zhou0], n., bamboo brush for cleaning frying pans.
5.炊事 [chui1shi4], n., the meals of a household.
6.炊煙 [chui1yan1], n., chimney smoke as indication of living resident.