U+7172 "煲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7172 "煲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a deep, wide mouthed pot or cauldron used for cooking, particularly for simmering soups, stews, or rice, and it also functions as a verb meaning to cook slowly in such a vessel. Commonly used in Cantonese and other southern Chinese dialects, it appears in words like "煲湯" (to boil soup) and "電飯煲" (electric rice cooker), emphasizing its cultural association with slow, moist heat cooking methods. The character is composed of the fire radical (火) and the phonetic component "保," reflecting both its thermal nature and its pronunciation.