漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
煮: boil, cook
JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
灬 carries the meaning · 者 gives the sound
12 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
にるniru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 煮るにるto boil; to simmer; to stew
-に-ni · kun'yomi
- 煮物にものnimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing
- 雑煮ぞうにsoup containing rice cakes and vegetables…
- 煮込むにこむto boil well; to stew
- 煮詰めるにつめるto boil down
にえるnieru · kun'yomi
- 煮えるにえるto be boiled; to be cooked
Also read シャ, にやす, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)者 (sound) + 火 fire, as 灬 (meaning)
To cook over a fire.
Source: Wiktionary, 煮 (rev. 93443789), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cooking over flames”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
者
Also built on someone (者)
The 者 family reads ショ (sho); 煮 is read シャ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side煮 boil · 灬
vs渚 strand · 氵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhǔ
Same form: 煮 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 煮 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 煮 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhǔ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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