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烀 is a specialized regional Chinese character denoting a slow-cooking technique of stewing or simmering food, typically meat and vegetables, until tender. Formed as a phono-semantic compound, it combines the semantic radical 火 (fire) on the left, signaling heat or cooking, with the phonetic component 乎 on the right, which gives the pronunciation and has no culinary association. The term thereby differentiates this method from other heating techniques such as frying, steaming, or rapid boiling.
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