焗: To pressure-steam food?

[Mark Yong]

Does anyone know if the following character is the word for “steam-pressure cooking”: 焗? I have seen this word in local Malaysian Chinese restaurants before, in the context of 鹽焗雞 (salt-steamed chicken).

I tried looking it up in all my dictionaries, including 康熙字典 and 辭源, but was unable to find it. Is it an unauthorised character? It appears to be coded in Windows XP East Asian font (Taiwanese).

I know the Cantonese pronunciation is “gŭk”. What is the Mandarin pronunciation?

[roddy]

The ABC Dictionary has it (via Wenlin) as ju2, steam-bake, but marks it as topo.

[skylee]

Take a look -> http://www.iciba.com/search?s=%E7%84%97

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[方]∶一种烹饪方法 [heat with vapor in airtight vessel],利用蒸汽使密闭容器中的食物变熟。如:全焗鸡

jú

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方言，将锅盖严焖煮：～咸鱼。盐～鸡。～油。

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In Hong Kong, it can also mean 烤 "to bake/roast" as in 焗爐 (烤箱) / 焗蛋糕 (烤蛋糕).

[gato]

The "[方]" and "topo" (as in topolect) notations in the dictionary entries indicate that it's not a standard Mandarin word. My HK-published 《中华高级新词典》says that it's Cantonese.

I think the Mandarin equivalent is "焖" (men1), which is used in one of the definitions skylee provided.

Apparently, in Cantonese one can say the weather is 焗. In Mandarin, you'd say the weather is 闷.