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On-Yomi: ジョウ、セイ — Kun-Yomi: む.す、む.れる、む.らす

Koohii stories:

1) [fuaburisu] 31-12-2005(181): This kanji is used in compounds for the steaming of food and also for smoking/fumigation. Here we have the Japanese once again trying to replicate the French cuisine, only with a twist, steaming food with flowers (think of flower-smoked ham for example). Flowers must first be completely soaked in water, and then poured over a thin piece of flooring under which there is an oven fire.

2) [Katsuo] 25-3-2008(136): Note: complete + water + floor are later combined into 丞 helping hand (#2919 丞). Story: The driver of a steam train asks you for a helping hand and explains that your job is to throw flowers on the fire to make the steam.

3) [crystalcastlecreature] 14-10-2009(63): (EASY KANJI!) At the top we see hot steam forming FLOWERS. At the bottom we see the STOVE FIRE heating the bottom of a pan. So what's in the middle causing all this steam? Its all COMPLETELY WATER.

4) [nest0r] 28-4-2008(31): I keep forgetting this primitive, so completely/water for me will be a sort of water sprite or elemental, a child-like creature completely made of water. ——– It used to be thought that to create steam, you had to trap the water sprite (using some sort of magical flowers as a lure), and place them over a thin piece of flooring under which there's an oven fire. The steam then flowers from the water sprite (re: fuaburisu).

5) [synewave] 10-12-2006(16): When you want to steam some flowers/vegetation you don't cover them completely with water, rather you have just a little at the floor of the saucepan and then heat.

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