饪
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cooked food; to cook (until ready)
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 食 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 飪
- Common rank
- #4,656
- Unicode
- U+996A
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 饪 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
饣 meaning “food” + 壬 sound ()
Components 饣 壬
Words with 饪
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烹饪法 | cuisine; culinary art; cookery; recipe | |
| 烹饪 | cooking; culinary arts |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 壬 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 壬 sound part | 9th heavenly stem | |
| 任 | to trust, to rely on; to appoint; to bear; duty, office | |
| 妊 | to conceive; to be pregnant | |
| 衽 | collar, lapel | |
| 纴 | to lay warp, to weave; to stitch, to sew |