Chinese Character Wiki

燜

mèn

simmer

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 悶 represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

悶 sound component

悶  Sound component

mèn, mēn

  

gloomy

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

16

Simplified

焖

Unicode

U+71DC


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