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馏

liú

Character Traditional 餾

What 馏 means

1. to distill
2. to break a liquid substance up into components by boiling

Other readings

馏 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• liùto steam; to cook in a steamer; to reheat cold food by steaming it

Words starting with 馏

• 馏分liú fènfraction (of a distillate); key (one component part of a distillate)

Words containing 馏

• 蒸馏zhēng liúto distill; distillation
• 干馏gān liúto carbonize; dry distillation; carbonization
• 分馏fēn liúfractional distillation
• 直馏zhí liúdirect distillation
• 蒸馏器zhēng liú qìstill (i.e. distilling apparatus)
• 蒸馏水zhēng liú shuǐdistilled water
• 蒸馏酒zhēng liú jiǔdistilled liquor; spirits

Characters built on 留

These share the phonetic component 留 (liú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 瘤liútumor
• 溜liūto slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate
• 榴liúpomegranate
• 遛liùto stroll; to walk (an animal)
• 骝liúbay horse with black mane
• 熘liūquick-fry; sim. to stir-frying, but with cornstarch added; also written 溜
• 镏liú(Taiwan; chemistry) lutetium

Characters that look like 馏

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 帽màohat; cap
• 嗡wēng(onomatopoeia) buzz; hum; drone
• 慵yōnglethargic
• 馑jǐntime of famine or crop failure
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟
• 锲qièto cut; to carve; to engrave

Sounds the same

Read liú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 留to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 流to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 浏clear; deep (of water); swift
• 刘(classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughter
• 瘤tumor
• 榴pomegranate
• 遛used in 逗遛
• 琉precious stone
• 硫sulfur (chemistry)
• 骝bay horse with black mane
• 旒tassel
• 镏(Taiwan; chemistry) lutetium