ジョウ, セイ, む.す, む.れる, む.らす
steam, heat, sultry, foment, get musty

This kanji has 13 strokes: 6 in the "grass" radical (くさ) and 7 other strokes.

Sample compounds (9) :

  1. ける
    ふける
    to become ready to eat (as a result of steaming)
  2. らす
    むらす
    to cook by steam

  3. むしき
    steamer

  4. じょうさん
    (vs) evaporation

  5. むしあつい
    humid, sultry

  6. じょうりゅう
    (vs) distillation

  7. じょうはつ
    (vs) evaporation, unexplained disappearance

  8. せいろ
    (uk) basket used for steaming food

  9. むしかえす
    to reheat, to steam over, to bring up again, to take up again a problem that has been dealt with
Kanji Character : 蒸
Kuten Encoding : 3088
SJIS Encoding : 3e78
Unicode Encoding : 84b8
Old Nelson Index : 4002
Radical Number : 140
Frequency Ranking : 1731
Gakken Index : 1721
Grade Level : 6
Halpern Index : 2334
Heisig Index : 1900
Henshall Index : 904
New Nelson Index : 5163
O'Neil Index : 1981
Stroke Count : 13
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3k9.19
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 9
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : k
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 19
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 943
SKIP Code : 2-3-10
De Roo Code : 1940
Four Corner Code : 4433.1
Korean reading : jeung
Pinyin reading : zheng1
Morohashi Index String : 31618P
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 9.0834
Morohashi Index Number : 31618
Morohashi Page : 834
Morohashi Volume : 9
Morohashi entry is Prime : true
Missclassification Codes
  1. SP2-3-9
Dictionary Codes
  1. R1940
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