蒸

蒸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓水火 (TNEF), four-corner 4433₁, composition ⿱艹烝)

• 𡽮, 𩟘, 𬵴

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31618
• Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3273, character 4
• Unihan data for U+84B8

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kljɯŋ): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 烝 (OC *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs).

For the "firewood" and "torch" senses, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *təŋ (“pine; fir”); compare Burmese ထင်း (htang:, “firewood”) (Schuessler, 2007).

For the "evaporate, steam" senses, see 烝 (OC *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs) for more.

蒸

1. (literally) to evaporate (transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
2. (cooking) to steam

   蒸餃／蒸饺  ―  zhēngjiǎo  ―  steamed dumplings

3. (historical) torch made of hemp stalks or bamboo and wood

   蒸燭／蒸烛  ―  zhēngzhú  ―  ancient torch made of hemp stalks or bamboo

4. (literary) small pieces of firewood
5. used in 蒸蒸
6. alternative form of 烝 (zhēng)

• (to evaporate): 蒸發／蒸发 (zhēngfā)
• (to steam):

• 燉／炖 (dùn)
• 燴／烩 (huì)
• 扒 (pá)

• “蒸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “蒸”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 262.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. steam; vapor
2. steamy; sultry
3. numerous; various, varied

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Tō-on: せい (sei)
• Kan’yō-on: じょう (jō, Jōyō)
• Kun: むす (musu, 蒸す, Jōyō)、むらす (murasu, 蒸らす, Jōyō)、むれる (mureru, 蒸れる, Jōyō)、ふかす (fukasu, 蒸かす)、ふける (fukeru, 蒸ける)、おおい (ōi, 蒸い)

蒸 (eumhun 찔 증 (jjil jeung))

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• 蒸發 (증발, jeungbal)
• 蒸氣 (증기, jeunggi)
• 蒸溜 (증류, jeungryu)
• 蒸散 (증산, jeungsan)

蒸: Hán Nôm readings: chưng, chừng

1. (cooking) steam
2. (liquids) to evaporate

• 餅蒸 (bánh chưng)