煮

See also 煑

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 煑

Etymology

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

Han character

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

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

煮 (Yale jyu2)

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Japanese

Kanji

煮 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゃ (sha), しょ (sho)
• Kun: にる (niru), にえる (nieru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

煮 (pinyin zhǔ (zhu3), Wade-Giles chu³)

Verb

煮 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhǔ)

1. to boil, to cook

Compounds

• 煮呢
• 煮沸
• 煮的
• 煮干
• 煮鼓
• 煮熟

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Vietnamese

Han character

煮 (chử)