炆

炆 U+7086, 炆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7086 ← 炅 [U+7085] CJK Unified Ideographs 炇 → [U+7087]

Translingual

Han character

炆 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火卜大 (FYK), four-corner 9084₁, composition ⿰火文)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 667, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18898
• Dae Jaweon: page 1076, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2193, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7086

Chinese

trad.		炆
simp. #		炆
alternative forms		燜／焖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wén (wen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wén
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wún
    • Wade–Giles: wên²
    • Yale: wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wen
    • Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man¹
    • Yale: mān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: men¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

炆

1. (Cantonese cuisine) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire

   • 佛跳牆，炆得咁鬼香，見到佛跳牆，鬼都要裝香 [Cantonese, trad.]
     佛跳墙，炆得咁鬼香，见到佛跳墙，鬼都要装香 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 許冠傑, 佛跳牆

     fat⁶ tiu³ coeng⁴, man¹ dak¹ gam³ gwai² hoeng¹, gin³ dou^3-2 fat⁶ tiu³ coeng⁴, gwai² dou¹ jiu³ zong¹ hoeng¹ [Jyutping]

     Fat tiu cheung, what a wonderful smell; at the sight of fat tiu cheung, even the spirits want to burn incense

See also

• 慢火 (mànhuǒ, “slow fire”)

Japanese

Kanji

炆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぶん (bun); もん (mon)
• Kun: あたたか (atataka)

Korean

Hanja

炆 • (mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune–Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

炆: Hán Việt readings: văn

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