Is there a variant of 溏 without the 口 component that's used in Taiwan?

Question

On a sign outside a breakfast eatery in Taoyuan, Taiwan I saw a character I didn't know, that Google Translate with the phone camera didn't translate, and that I couldn't find in Pleco.

It looks like 溏 but without the "mouth" component in the lower right. It looks like it has a "person" component there instead, but maybe that is part of the strokes above it, I'm pretty rusty.

Is this a common variant of 溏? Semantically I thought it more likely to be a variant of "sugar" 糖, but that has more differences.

Answer 1

焿 is a character on its own.

ZDic：http://www.zdic.net/z/1d/js/713F.htm

gēng 〔～子寮湾〕地名。在中国台湾省东北海岸。

Wiktionary: https://zh.wiktionary.org/zh-hans/%E7%84%BF

“焿”是“羹”的异体字，为台湾本地自创的形声俗字。

羹 means '(thick) soup, broth'.

Answer 2

A few notes:

• The left hand side of that character is「火」, not「氵」(unlike in「溏」)
• 「庚」is not a variant component of「唐」.「唐」(boastful, exaggerative; Baxter-Sagart OC: /*[N-]rˁaŋ/) is constructed from semantic「口」(mouth) and phonetic「庚」(/*kˤraŋ/).

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「焿」(thick broth, soup; Pinyin: gēng) is constructed from semantic「火」(fire) and phonetic「庚」(gēng), and as mentioned elsewhere, is a variant of「羹」. The whole sign says:

早餐 (BREAKFAST)

• 飯 (Rice dishes)
• 麵 (Noodle dishes)
• 焿 (Soup dishes)

Answer 3

I couldn't find [it] in Pleco.

Here's a simple way to find it in Pleco. You need to have the:

Fullscreen Handwriting Recognizer ($9.99)

add-on activated in Pleco.

Then all you have to do is write the character out to the best of your ability:

and Bob's your uncle.