to sauté / to stir-fry / to speculate / to hype / to fire (sb)

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is stir-frying (炒) smileys (少) cut from potatoes over a fire (火) in the aorta (ao3).

炒 character breakdown

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 少 looks like a smiley face.

There's a food shortage (少) in the aorta, and Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Smiley (少) are looking for food in the living room (ao3). There's only one banana (丿) left. Soon they'll have to eat the many daisies (小) which are growing there.
young
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).

Characters with 炒 as component

炒 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 炒

to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame / to conduct a media blitz / to manipulate a stock market through large-scale buying and selling
stir-fried dish (Tw)
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned / enthusiasm of the new convert
lit. to fry and sell on the spot / fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
to stir-fry ingredients that have been cooked or partially cooked

Sentences with 炒

炒 currently does not appear in any sentence.