in English

liù
to steam / to cook in a steamer / to reheat cold food by steaming it
liú
to distill / to break a liquid substance up into components by boiling

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 餾, the traditional character: 馏 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Warring States script: 餾 Warring States script 戰國.晉
  • Small seal script: 餾 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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