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煮

煮

See also: 煑

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

煮 (radical 86 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十日火 (JAF), four-corner 44336, composition ⿱者灬)

  1. cook

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 678, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19165
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1087, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2211, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+716E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 煮
alt. forms 煑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (者) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觰 *rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸 *tjaː, *tja
者 *tjaːʔ
堵 *tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭 *tjaːʔ
撦 *l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯 *tʰjaːʔ
闍 *djaː, *taː
奢 *hljaː
鍺 *toːlʔ
都 *taː
醏 *taː
覩 *taːʔ
睹 *taːʔ
暏 *taːʔ
賭 *taːʔ
帾 *taːʔ
楮 *taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠 *daː, *da
瘏 *daː
廜 *daː
鷵 *daː
緒 *ljaʔ
豬 *ta
猪 *ta
瀦 *ta
藸 *ta, *da
櫫 *ta
褚 *taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著 *taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸 *tas, *das
儲 *da
躇 *da
櫧 *tja
藷 *tja, *djas
蠩 *tja
煮 *tjaʔ
渚 *tjaʔ
煑 *tjaʔ
陼 *tjaʔ
翥 *tjas
署 *djas
薯 *djas
曙 *djas
書 *hlja
暑 *hjaʔ
鐯 *taɡ
擆 *taɡ
櫡 *taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjaʔ) : phonetic 者 ‎(OC *tjaːʔ) + semantic 灬 ‎(“fire”) – to cook over a fire.

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 煮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyoX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]aʔ/
English boil, cook

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 煮
Reading # 1/1
No. 17004
Phonetic
component		 者
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 䰞
Old
Chinese		 /*tjaʔ/
Notes 煑今體

Verb

煮

  1. to boil, to cook
    煮麵 / 煮面  ―  zhǔ miàn  ―  to make (cook) noodles

Compounds

  • 一鍋煮／一锅煮
  • 家庭煮夫
  • 摘山煮海
  • 敲冰煮茗
  • 滷煮／卤煮
  • 炮鳳煮龍／炮凤煮龙
  • 烹煮
  • 烹龍煮鳳／烹龙煮凤
  • 焚琴煮鶴／焚琴煮鹤
  • 煮呢
  • 煮字
  • 煮字療飢／煮字疗饥
  • 煮干
  • 煮沸 (zhǔfèi)
  • 煮海為鹽／煮海为盐
  • 煮熟 (zhǔshú)
  • 煮的
  • 煮粥焚鬚／煮粥焚须
  • 煮茗
  • 煮菜
  • 煮豆燃萁
  • 煮酒
  • 煮飯／煮饭 (zhǔfàn)
  • 煮鶴焚琴／煮鹤焚琴
  • 煮鶴燒琴／煮鹤烧琴
  • 煮鼓
  • 熬煮
  • 燃萁煮豆
  • 燉煮／炖煮
  • 燜煮／焖煮
  • 白煮
  • 白煮蛋
  • 鑄山煮海／铸山煮海

Japanese

Kanji

煮

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

煮 • ‎(ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

煮 (chử)

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