蒸
zhēng HSK7

steam

蒸 zhēng
to steam verb
to cook or heat food using steam

馒头已经蒸好了。

mán​tou yǐ​jīng zhēng hǎo le.

The steamed buns are ready.

firewood verb
a torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo, or finely chopped firewood (archaic)

在古代，“蒸”可指代用作燃料的柴火。

zài gǔ​dài,“ zhēng” kě zhǐ dài yòng​zuò rán​liào de chái​huo.

In ancient times, 'zheng' could refer to firewood used as fuel.

to evaporate verb
to turn into vapor or rise as steam

地面的水气向上蒸腾。

dì​miàn de shuǐ​qì xiàng shàng zhēng téng.

The water vapor from the ground is rising and evaporating.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)