馏
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to distill; to break a liquid substance up into components by boiling
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 食 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 餾
- Common rank
- #3,233
- Unicode
- U+998F
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Formation & memory
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How 馏 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Distilled 留 wine 饣; 留 also provides the pronunciation
Words with 馏
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分馏 | fractional distillation | |
| 馏分 | fraction (of a distillate); key (one component part of a distillate) | |
| 蒸馏水 | distilled water | |
| 干馏 | to carbonize; dry distillation; carbonization | |
| 蒸馏器 | still (i.e. distilling apparatus) | |
| 直馏 | direct distillation | |
| 蒸馏酒 | distilled liquor; spirits | |
| 蒸馏 | to distill; distillation |