蒸 Steam

Radical Combination

• 艹

  Flowers
• 丞

  Coral
• 灬

  Boil

Meaning

Primary

Steam

Mnemonic

If you take the flowers off some coral and boil them, steam comes out.

Hints

Steam comes out of the coral flowers because they hold a lot of water. They're flowers, but they're coral flowers, so they came from the ocean. Of course there's water in them, and if you boil that water steam will come out.

Readings

On’yomi

じょう

Kun’yomi

む

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

As you watch the steam coming off the coral flowers, someone appears behind you. It’s Joe (じょう), the big farmhand. "Are you steaming coral?" he asks. "Smelled it a mile away. I love steaming me some coral.”

Hints

It's weird that Joe is so sensitive to the smell of steaming coral. He's lived as a farmhand nowhere near the sea all his life... at least that's what he told you. And now he's in your house breathing in the steam really deeply with his nose practically in the pot.