煨 (wēi) · to simmer over a slow fire, to stew

Meanings

1 to simmer over a slow fire
2 to stew
3 to roast in hot ashes

Characters

煨

wēi

to simmer; to stew; to roast in ashes

Examples

HSK 5

妈妈正用小火煨一锅鸡汤。

Māma zhèng yòng xiǎohuǒ wēi yì guō jītāng.

Mom is simmering a pot of chicken soup over low heat.

HSK 7-9

他把红薯埋进热灰里煨熟。

Tā bǎ hóngshǔ mái jìn rè huī lǐ wēi shú.

He buried the sweet potatoes in hot ashes to roast them.

Tips

usage

煨 is a cooking verb for slow, gentle heat: either long simmering in liquid (煨汤 'to simmer soup') or burying food in hot embers to roast it.

Components

radical

火 huǒ

fire

火 ('fire') on the left makes the meaning transparent: 煨 is a way of cooking with low, lasting heat.

phonetic

畏 wèi

to fear

畏 ('to fear') supplies the sound, close to wèi and read here as wēi. It carries no meaning in this word.

Stroke Order

煨 wēi

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