煮える
にえる · nieru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan
to boil
🍲🔥 煮 = 者 (person) + 灬 (fire dots): food sitting over flames until it's done
The four dots 灬 at the bottom are the fire radical, also found in 熱 (heat). 煮える is intransitive: the food boils or gets cooked by itself. Its partner 煮る (niru) means you boil something. Sound hook: nieru, the stew is nearly ready.
煮 — 者 (phonetic) + 灬 (fire radical, bottom)
煮 means 'to boil' or 'to cook'. The bottom component 灬 is a variant of 火 (fire), showing flames beneath a pot. The top 者 serves as the phonetic element, hinting at the pronunciation zhǔ. Together they depict cooking food over fire.