煮 Stroke Order

煮 [zhǔ] 1. To put something in water and boil it with fire. 把东西放在水里，用火把水烧开。 2. Specific usages: - Cooking (烹～) - Boiling rice (～饭) - Playing with words (～字，喻书生玩味文字) - Inflicting harm among kin (～豆燃箕，喻骨肉相残) - Detracting from beauty (～鹤焚琴，喻大煞风景的事) 3. Verb: - Original meaning: To heat something in a pot of water until it is cooked (把东西放在有水的锅里加热使熟). - Etymology: Pictophonetic character composed of the element for fire (火) and the phonetic component 者. 4. Example usages: - "东煮海水为盐" (Han Shu): Boiling seawater to make salt. - "命妪煮芋" (Qing, Zhou Rong): Ordering someone to boil taro. 5. Cooking related phrases: - 煮瀑 (to boil soup, to boil something in water) - 煮爆 (to cook) - 煮汤 (to brew medicinal soup) - 煮海 (to boil seawater to obtain salt) - 煮井 (to make salt from brine) - 煮汁 (to boil herbal medicine to extract juice) - 煮酒 (to heat wine, to brew wine) - 煮雪 (to make tea or cook rice using snow water) 6. Noun: - 熟盐 (salt obtained by evaporation), the process of boiling down salty water to extract salt. 7. Reference: - "齐有 渠展之盐, 燕有 辽东之煮." (Guanzi): Qi has salt from dredging, and Yan has salt boiled from Liaodong.