This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

A rice cooker on heat 日, building up steam 丷 and letting it off

  • 曾 already, formerly, once; the past zēng
    • 曰 to speak; to say yuē
曾 céng already, formerly, once the past 僧噌增層憎甑繒缯罾贈赠蹭

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