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The kanji 蒸: meaning, readings and stroke order
蒸
- Meaning
- steam
- On reading
- ジョウ jou
- Kun reading
- む（す） musu、む（れる） mureru、む（らす） murasu
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 艸 grass
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- hấp, bốc hơi (chưng)
- Japanese
- むす。ゆげが でる。
- Korean
- 찌다, 김이 나다 (증)
- Chinese
- 蒸、蒸发
Readings, words and example sentences
ジョウ jou · on reading
蒸発
turning into vapor, evaporation
水が 日光で 蒸発します。
Water turns into vapor in the sunlight.
む（す） musu · kun reading
蒸す
to steam (food)
いもを 蒸して 食べます。
I steam potatoes and eat them.
む（れる） mureru · kun reading · less common
蒸れる
to get hot and damp inside
長く はいて いると くつが 蒸れます。
If you wear shoes for a long time, they get hot and damp inside.
む（らす） murasu · kun reading · less common
蒸らす
to let it steam a little more
たいた ごはんを 少し 蒸らします。
After the rice is cooked, I let it steam a little longer.
Practise writing 蒸 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 蒸 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 6 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.