饪 meaning and stroke order
Cooked food; to cook until well-done
How to write 饪, stroke by stroke
7 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 饪
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- cooked food
- to cook (until ready)
- variant of 飪|饪[ren4]
How 饪 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Food.
饣 gives the meaning and 壬 hints at the sound.
Radical: 饣 (food), shared by 43 characters on this site.
How to remember 饪
The food radical 饣 on the left tells you this is about eating, and 壬 (rén) on the right gives the sound rèn. Picture food on the left side of the stove being cooked until it is ready.
饪 almost never appears alone in modern Chinese. You will see it in the word 烹饪 (pēngrèn), meaning cooking or the culinary arts, which sounds a bit more formal than 做饭 (zuòfàn). Example: 她在学烹饪。 (Tā zài xué pēngrèn.) She is studying cooking.
Common mistake: Learners often confuse 饪 with 任 (rèn, to appoint, to allow), which has the same sound and the same right side but uses the person radical 亻. Remember that only the food radical 饣 version relates to cooking. Also be careful not to write 壬 as 王 or 千. 壬 has a short slanted stroke on top.
Common words with 饪
Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | Level |
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| 烹饪 | pēngrèn | cooking; culinary arts |
饪 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
Questions about 饪
How many strokes are in 饪?
饪 is written with 7 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 饪 mean?
饪 (rèn) means cooked food; to cook until well-done. A common word with it is 烹饪 (pēngrèn), meaning "cooking; culinary arts".
How do you pronounce 饪?
饪 is pronounced rèn, in the fourth tone (falling).
What is the radical of 饪?
The radical of 饪 is 饣, which carries the idea of "food". Dictionaries list 饪 under this radical.
What is the traditional form of 饪?
The traditional form of 饪 is 飪 and 餁. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; 饪 is the simplified form used in mainland China and Singapore.
What is the difference between 烹饪 and 做饭?
做饭 (zuòfàn) is the everyday way to say you are making a meal at home. 烹饪 (pēngrèn) refers to cooking as a skill or art, so it shows up in phrases like 烹饪课 (pēngrèn kè, cooking class) or 烹饪技术 (cooking technique).
Can I use 饪 by itself to mean to cook?
Not in modern speech. On its own it sounds classical, so use 烹饪, 做饭, or 煮 (zhǔ, to boil or cook) instead.