Kanji N1

煮: boil, cook

煮 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning boil, cook, written with 12 strokes. It is read シャ (on) and にる, にえる, にやす (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 煮る (にる, to boil) and 煮える (にえる, to be boiled).

煮

Meanings

  • boil
  • cook
Strokes12
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1565 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • シャ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • にる
  • -に
  • にえる
  • にやす

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 煮

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 煮るにる

    to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe

    JLPT N2
  • 煮えるにえる

    to be boiled; to be cooked

    JLPT N2
  • 煮物にもの

    nimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing

  • 雑煮ぞうに

    soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

  • 煮やすにやす

    to cook inside

  • 煮込むにこむ

    to boil well; to stew

  • 煮詰めるにつめる

    to boil down

  • 煮汁にじる

    broth

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.