煮 – boil, cook

12 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1565 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 煮 means boil, cook. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シャ (sha); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is に.る、-に、に.える、に.やす (niru, ni, nieru, niyasu). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 火 (no. 86).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シャ	sha
Kun’yomi	に.る	niru
Kun’yomi	-に	ni
Kun’yomi	に.える	nieru
Kun’yomi	に.やす	niyasu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 火 (Kangxi radical 86). Components: 日・老・杰.

Words using 煮

煮るにるto boil煮えるにえるto be boiled

Example sentences

くたくたに煮る。

Reduce to pulp by boiling.

Tatoeba #225682

スープがなべでぐつぐつ煮えている。

The soup is bubbling in the pot.

Tatoeba #215043

Kanji with the same radical

点無然火熱爆為燃焦災焼照炎煙炭烈

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