Definitions
overcooked; soft
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胹 is a phono-semantic compound verb meaning to boil or stew food until tender. It combines the semantic radical 肉 (ròu, meat, written as 月), indicating flesh or food, on the left, with the phonetic component 而 (ér) on the right. The character often appears in classical culinary texts and banquet descriptions to denote the prolonged boiling of meat, highlighting its transformation through heat and liquid.
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