The stroke order of the word "Steam": horizontal, vertical, vertical, horizontal hook/horizontal hook, vertical hook, horizontal hook/horizontal hook, stroke, nip, horizontal, dot, dot, dot, dot.

Explanation of "Zheng":

vaporize

zhēng

Hot air rises: steam. Transpiration. evaporation. Vapor (a gas that becomes a liquid or solid due to evaporation, boiling or sublimation). Distillation. The clouds are steaming and the clouds are rising. Thriving.

Use the heat of water vapor to heat or cook things: steamed cakes. Steamed dumplings. steamer.

In ancient times, torches made of hemp straw and bamboo wood: steam candles.

Small firewood.

The character "vapor" is a pictophonetic character. This character first appeared in Xiaozhuan characters in "Shuowen". In the Xiaozhuan characters in "Shuowen" (Figure 1), the character "Zheng" has a more grass-like shape and is messy. By the time of the Han Dynasty, the upper structure of the character "Zheng" became the character "艹", and the lower structure also became more regular.

In regular script, the two parts of the upper structure of the character "点" are separated from the middle of the character "艹", while the lower structure is the same as that of modern Chinese. After regular script, there were no big changes until it developed into modern Chinese.

The word " steam" is composed of the word "艹" and "_". The glyph uses the character "艹" (草) as the phonogram, and the character "_" as the phonogram. The character "艹" has the meaning of small firewood, and can also be extended to refer to the hemp pole. In regular script, the character "艹" is broken, so the character "缹" has the original meaning of breaking the hemp pole from the middle.

Because the word "vapor" has an extended meaning of heat rising upwards, the phrases related to the word "vapor" in modern Chinese include transpiration, evaporation, etc.