饪 rèn cooked food
How to remember 饪: 饣 food + 壬 ninth = cooked food. The student's food burns eight times, but on the ninth try she proudly serves real cooked food.
Component breakdown
饪 = 饣 food + 壬 ninth
- 饣 food
- 壬 ninth
The student's food burns eight times, but on the ninth try she proudly serves real cooked food.
How it is used
- Bound to a single word: 烹饪 (pēngrèn) cooking/culinary art - 烹饪技巧 (pēngrèn jìqiǎo) cooking skills, 中华烹饪 (Zhōnghuá pēngrèn) Chinese cuisine.
- 烹饪 is the formal, craft-level word for cooking (cookbooks, culinary schools), vs everyday 做饭 (zuò fàn) to cook a meal.
- You'll only meet 饪 inside 烹饪.