to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
trad. 生炒熱賣
Also written 生炒熱賣【shēng chǎo rè mài】
Characters in this word
4生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
炒
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to sauté; to stir-fry, to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp, to hype up, to sack; to fire (sb)
- Pinyin
- chǎo
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 3521 of 2500
热
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to warm up, to heat up, hot (of weather), heat, fervent
- Pinyin
- rè
- Traditional
- 熱
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1580 of 2500
卖
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to sell, to betray, to spare no effort, to show off or flaunt
- Pinyin
- mài
- Traditional
- 賣
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 805 of 2500