hian5

I want to talk about hiaⁿ5 today. My dictionaries have not agreed on the character and I will therefore present them one by one.

Zhang XiaoShan writes hiaⁿ5 燃 means zheng1zhu3 蒸煮 - which means cooking by steaming.  There is a word zheng1zhu3 dai4 蒸煮袋 which means a poaching bag.  In fact, I cannot find in my Mandarin dictionaries the meaning of zheng1zhu3 蒸煮 and I only assume it to mean cooking by steaming.

Here are the examples given by ZXS

hiaⁿ5 guê2 燃粿 - to steam rice cakes

hiaⁿ5 bung5 燃飯 - to steam rice 

hiaⁿ5 muê5 燃糜 - to steam congee 

I have seen in historical dramas where they actually put congee in enclosed containers in a steaming baskets to steam.

ZXS also explains muêh8hiaⁿ5 物燃 as chai2huo5 柴火 which means firewood. 

ZXS also gives other examples of use.  For example, the Mandarin word shao1huo3 燒火, which means to start a fire, could be said as:

hiaⁿ5 ca5 燃柴

hiaⁿ5 cao2 燃草

hiaⁿ5 suaⁿ1mo1 燃山芼 where 山芼 in Mandarin is shan1cao3 山草 a kind of grass founds in hills and mountains

My word dictionary uses a different character for hiaⁿ5 煆 as in hiaⁿ5 huê2 煆火: It explains hiaⁿ5 huê2 煆火 to mean shao1huo3 燒火 : to light a fire.

The example of use given is:

Ua2 ca2 cai3 le2 hiaⁿ5 huê2.

我炒菜你煆火。

and in Mandarin it writes 我炒菜你燒火。which means I will fry the vegetables and you will light the fire.

Do you use the word hiaⁿ5?  If so, how to you use it?