cooking method / to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China)

= + : Pinocchio (p) is boiling (烹) Joseph Henry (亨) alive on a grill (灬) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

烹 character breakdown

prosperous / henry (unit of inductance)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: American scientist Joseph Henry.

Before Henry (亨) invented inductance he used to hang out with Hamlet (h) a lot in front of the engine ((e)ng1). One day he observed Hamlet shifting a mandarin (口) from a price cup (了) to a beret (亠) and vice versa, which gave him the idea of putting an iron core into an electromagnet.
"fire" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 86), occurring in 熙, 然, 熊 etc

I will represent this "fire" component by a grill.

Characters with 烹 as component

烹 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 烹

to cook / to prepare (food)
cuisine / culinary art / cookery / recipe

Sentences with 烹

烹 currently does not appear in any sentence.