How to write 煮

煮 [zhǔ] 1. 把东西放在水里，用火把水烧开。 To put something in water and heat it until the water boils. 2. 把东西放在水里，用火把水烧开：烹～。～饭。～字（喻书生玩味文字）。～豆燃箕（喻骨肉相残）。～鹤焚琴（喻大煞风景的事）。 To put something in water and heat it until it is cooked: to cook (food). To boil rice. To enjoy the intricacies of language (figurative expression). To boil beans and burn the winnowing basket (figurative expression referring to family feuds). To boil a crane and burn a qin (figurative expression for ruining an enjoyable situation). 【本义】:把东西放在有水的锅里加热使熟 [Original meaning]: To heat something in a pot with water to cook it. 【造字法】:形声。从火，者声。 [Character formation]: Phono-semantic compound. The character is composed of the radical for fire and a phonetic component. 引: 1. 《汉书》：东煮海水为盐。 [Example from History]: "In the Han Dynasty, they boiled sea water in the east to make salt." 2. 清· 周容《芋老人传》：命妪煮芋。 [Example from Qing Dynasty, Zhou Rong]: "Ordered the woman to boil taro." 例: 又如: 妪煮芋进。 For example: The woman brought in boiled taro. 引: 1. 杜荀鹤《山中寡妇》：时挑野菜和根煮，旋斫生柴带叶烧。 [Example from Du Xunhe]: "At that time, she picked wild vegetables and roots to boil, then chopped fresh branches with leaves to burn." 2. 《水浒传》：若是射得下来，村房人家，讨些水，煮瀑得熟，也得充饥。 [Example from Water Margin]: "If one could shoot it down, go to the village houses, ask for some water, boil the waterfall to cook it well, it would at least fill the stomach." 例: 又如: 煮瀑(即煮泡，放在水中煮);煮爆(煮);煮汤(熬药);煮海(煮海水为盐);煮井(煮盐井之水为盐);煮汁(药物和水熬成汁液);煮酒(烫酒，酿酒;热的酒);煮雪(用雪水烧茶或作饭) For example: Boiling waterfall (to boil and steep something in water); boiling (to cook); boiling soup (to decoct medicine); boiling sea (to boil seawater to make salt); boiling well (boiling brine from a salt well); boiling juice (to extract juice from herbs with water); boiling wine (heating wine, brewing wine; hot wine); boiling snow (using snow water to brew tea or cook rice). 煮 [zhǔ] 名 煮盐，熟盐 (英：salt obtained by evaporation)。熬干含盐的水分，提取食盐 Salt obtained by boiling; evaporated salt. To evaporate saltwater to extract salt. 引: 1. 《管子·地数》：齐有渠展之盐，燕有辽东之煮。 [Example from Guanzi]: "Qi has the salt from the channels, and Yan has the boiled salt from Liaodong."