炡

Translingual

Han character

炡 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火一卜一 (FMYM), four-corner 9181₁, composition ⿰火正)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 668, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18934
• Dae Jaweon: page 1077, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2194, character 10
• Unihan data for U+70A1
• International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database (國際電腦漢字及異體字知識庫)

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Chinese

trad.		炡
simp. #		炡

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhēng (zheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jheng
    • Wade–Giles: chêng¹
    • Yale: jēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeng
    • Palladius: чжэн (čžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zing¹
    • Yale: jīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 炡

1. (Only used in 炡爚.) to boil
2. (Only used in 炡爚.) to fry in fat or oil
3. (Only used in 炡爚.) scald
4. (Only used in 炡爚.) seethe

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 炡 – see 蒸 (“to evaporate; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 蒸).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.