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On-Yomi: ジョウ、セイ — Kun-Yomi: む.す、む.れる、む.らす
Elements:
steam, flowers, helping hand, complete, water, one, floor, oven-fire, barbecue
Heisig story:
The flower at the top and the floor with the oven fire beneath are familiar. The problem is what comes in between. It is formed by the character for complete, whose vertical stroke doubles up as the first stroke of water.
Koohii stories:
1) [fuaburisu] 31-12-2005(181): This kanji is used in compounds for the steaming of food and also for smoking/fumigation. Here we have the Japanese once again trying to replicate the French cuisine, only with a twist, steaming food with flowers (think of flower-smoked ham for example). Flowers must first be completely soaked in water, and then poured over a thin piece of flooring under which there is an oven fire.
2) [Katsuo] 25-3-2008(136): Note: complete + water + floor are later combined into 丞 helping hand (#2919 丞). Story: The driver of a steam train asks you for a helping hand and explains that your job is to throw flowers on the fire to make the steam.
3) [crystalcastlecreature] 14-10-2009(63): (EASY KANJI!) At the top we see hot steam forming FLOWERS. At the bottom we see the STOVE FIRE heating the bottom of a pan. So what's in the middle causing all this steam? Its all COMPLETELY WATER.
4) [nest0r] 28-4-2008(31): I keep forgetting this primitive, so completely/water for me will be a sort of water sprite or elemental, a child-like creature completely made of water. ——– It used to be thought that to create steam, you had to trap the water sprite (using some sort of magical flowers as a lure), and place them over a thin piece of flooring under which there's an oven fire. The steam then flowers from the water sprite (re: fuaburisu).
5) [synewave] 10-12-2006(16): When you want to steam some flowers/vegetation you don't cover them completely with water, rather you have just a little at the floor of the saucepan and then heat.