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overcooked; soft
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胹 is a phono-semantic compound verb meaning to boil or stew food, especially meat, until soft. It combines the semantic radical 肉 (ròu, 'flesh,' written as the moon radical 月) on the left, indicating animal tissue for consumption, with the phonetic component 而 (ér) on the right. This character frequently appears in classical culinary texts and historical banquet accounts to describe the prolonged boiling of meat, stressing the tender texture achieved through slow cooking in water.
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