蒸
zhēng
#2,353 most
frequent character
to evaporate, (of cooking) to steam
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
蒸 zhēng joins 艹 plants with 烝 zhēng as the sound part. Plants give its first sense: peeled hemp stalks. Those were used for an old hemp torch, and later the word came to mean steaming food and evaporating.
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