烹饪 pēngrèn cooking
cooking; culinary arts
How to remember 烹饪: 烹 cooking + 饪 cooked food = cooking.
Characters
How it is used
- The culinary arts as a field or skill - 烹饪技术 (pēngrèn jìshù) culinary skills, 中华烹饪 (Zhōnghuá pēngrèn) Chinese cuisine.
- Formal and abstract; names cooking as a discipline (schools, competitions, professions) rather than the one-off act of making dinner.
- For 'I'll cook tonight' use 做饭, not 烹饪.
Example sentences
- 你擅长烹饪吗？ Nǐ shàncháng pēngrèn ma?Are you good at cooking?
- 烹饪课程应该作为学校的必修课。 Pēngrèn kèchéng yīnggāi zuòwéi xuéxiào de bìxiūkè.A cooking course should be mandatory in schools.