蒸
zhēng HSK7

steam

蒸 zhēng
to evaporate nounverb
(bound form) To rise as vapor; to evaporate.
to steam verb
To cook, heat, or disinfect food or objects using water vapor.

她在为午饭蒸鱼。

tā zài wèi wǔ​fàn zhēng yú.

She is steaming fish for lunch.

archaic torch; firewood
a torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo, or finely chopped firewood

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,358th most common 23.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,322nd most common 11.6 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.50 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
17.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+84B8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)