蒸す

• 読み: むす
• ローマ字: musu
• 漢字の分解: 蒸 (jō/mu) — steam, sultry, hot and humid
• 発音: /mɯ.sɯ/

意味

To steam (food); to be muggy or humid. Refers both to the cooking method and to oppressive, hot, humid weather.

A Group 1 (godan) verb with two distinct uses. In cooking, it means to heat food using steam (as with a 蒸し器, steamer). As a weather description, it means the air is hot, humid, and stifling. The weather use — often as 蒸し暑い — is more prominent in N1 reading contexts.

例文

1. 今日は蒸し暑くて外に出る気になれない。
2. 茶碗蒸しは卵を蒸して作る伝統料理だ。
3. 梅雨の時期は一日中蒸すような天気が続く。

使い方ガイド

場面: cooking, weather, daily life

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 蒸 depicts steam rising from vegetation under the sun, conveying heat and vapour. Used since ancient times for both cooking techniques and weather conditions.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal