烝 zhēng rise Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 烝 zhēng multitudinous (bound form) numerous; many; multitudinous, usually used when referring to the masses of people as in 烝民 zhēngmín or 烝黎 zhēnglí to steam (literary) to cook or heat food with steam to offer (literary) to present or offer up, such as an offering to ancestors winter sacrifice (archaic) a traditional ancestral sacrifice held during the winter season incest (literary) to have illicit sexual relations with an older female family member firewood (archaic) a torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo; finely chopped firewood to rise (literary) of hot air or steam, to rise up; to evaporate particle (archaic) [an introductory particle used at the beginning of a sentence in classical texts] Cross-References Same as 蒸 zhēng Frequency Written text 0.030 per million Details Strokes 10 Unicode U+70DD Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
烝 zhēng multitudinous (bound form) numerous; many; multitudinous, usually used when referring to the masses of people as in 烝民 zhēngmín or 烝黎 zhēnglí to steam (literary) to cook or heat food with steam to offer (literary) to present or offer up, such as an offering to ancestors winter sacrifice (archaic) a traditional ancestral sacrifice held during the winter season incest (literary) to have illicit sexual relations with an older female family member firewood (archaic) a torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo; finely chopped firewood to rise (literary) of hot air or steam, to rise up; to evaporate particle (archaic) [an introductory particle used at the beginning of a sentence in classical texts]
