Chinese Character Wiki

焖

mèn

simmer

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 闷 represents the sound. Simplified form of 燜.

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

闷 sound component

闷  Sound component

mèn, mēn

  

gloomy

Evolution

焖 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
焖 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

焖 (燜) 

mèn

simmer, cook over slow fire; to cook in a covered vessel; to casserole; to stew

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5207th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

燜

Unicode

U+7116


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