Chinese Character 蒸 Meanings and components.

Form

蒸

Meaning

蒸 meaning[3] in English

To Evaporate.

(Of Cooking) To Steam.

Torch Made From Hemp Stalks Or Bamboo (Old).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 蒸 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and multitudinous (烝)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TNEF

How to write 蒸

To write蒸zheng1to evaporate you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 烝zheng1multitudinous arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 烝 = 蒸

蒸 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 蒸 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 蒸, looks as follow:

蒸
Pinyin:zheng1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Evaporate . (Of Cooking) To Steam . Torch Made From Hemp Stalks Or Bamboo (Old) . Finely Chopped Firewood (Old)
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
烝
Pinyin:zheng1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Multitudinous . The Masses . To Present (To Sb) . To Rise . To Advance . To Progress . Archaic Variant Of 蒸[Zheng1]
丞
Pinyin:cheng2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Deputy
氶
Pinyin:zheng3 Shape:吕
乛
Pinyin:ya5
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 乙[Zhe2]
水
Pinyin:shui3
Meaning[3]: Surname Shui
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
灬
Pinyin:biao1
Meaning[3]: 'Fire' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 86), Occurring In 熙, 然, 熊 Etc

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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