Chinese word dictionary

熏蒸

xūn zhēng · (of sultry weather) to be stifling; (TCM) to treat a disease with fumes generated by burning medicinal herbs or with steam generated by boiling herbs; to fumigate

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Word information

Simplified熏蒸

Traditional燻蒸

Pinyinxūn zhēng

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

熏xūn

to smoke, to cure meat; vapor, smoke, fog

蒸zhēng

steam, vapor; to evaporate

How to learn 熏蒸

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Words with the same characters

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熏xūn

fragrance; warm; to educate; variant of 熏[xun1]; to smoke; to fumigate; to smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils; to perfume; variant of 熏[xun1]

熏陶xūntáo

to seep in; to influence; to nurture; influence; training

蒸zhēng

to evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old); finely chopped firewood (old)

蒸发zhēngfā

to evaporate; evaporation