WORD DETAIL
煎じる
せんじる
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Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
煎じる, readせんじる, uses the decocting stem煎in a verb for extracting by simmering. - Basic usage: Use it for simmering herbs or similar material in water to extract their components, as in
薬草を煎じる.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- Scope and context
- It focuses on decocting by prolonged simmering rather than lightly brewing tea with
淹れる, and the material takesを.
- It focuses on decocting by prolonged simmering rather than lightly brewing tea with

