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What does 炒作 mean?

猫头鹰māotóuyīngowl

炒作 chǎozuò

to hype; to promote (in the media)

It can also mean

  • to speculate (in stocks etc)

Its characters

  1. 炒 chǎo to hype (as in 炒作)
  2. 作 zuò to do

In a sentence

这个新闻明显是在炒作。 This news story is clearly just hype.

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