烹煮
pēng​zhǔ

boil

烹 pēng boil

Components

亨
亨 Sound component
hēng, xiǎng, pēng smoothly
灬
灬 Meaning component
biāo, huǒ fire

fire

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartphæng[p.qʰ]ˤraŋboil (v.)
Zhengzhangpqʰraːŋ
Unicodepæng

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang

煮 zhǔ cook

Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components

者
者 Sound component
zhě one who...
灬
灬 Meaning component
biāo, huǒ fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Spring and Autumn ~600 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyoX[t]aʔ boil, cook

說文解字

《說文》：“，孚也。从，者聲。煮，或从火；，或从水在其中。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)