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chow ta

chow ta is the alternative spelling of chao ta.

Meaning of chao ta

Adjective

chao ta (comparative more chao ta, superlative most chao ta)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) Burnt and charred (e.g., from overcooking).
    • The 'chao ta' (burnt) portions of the bak kwa indicate that the meat has been exposed to extremely high temperatures.2015 February 18, Andrea Seet, quoting Dr Wong Seng Weng, “How many floors to walk up to burn off that bak kwa? A guide to post-CNY exercise”, in The New Paper, Singapore

Forms of chow ta

comparativemore chow ta
superlativemost chow ta

Questions about chow ta

What is chow ta the alternative spelling of?
Chow ta is the alternative spelling of chao ta.

Words near chow ta in the dictionary

  1. chow line
  2. chow lines
  3. chow mein
  4. chow mein bun
  5. chow mein buns
  6. chow ta
  7. chow tah
  8. chow tar
  9. chow time
  10. chow-chow
  11. chow-chows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chow ta (page history and authors); chao ta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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