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烹

pēng

HSK 6 Character

What 烹 means

1. to boil; to brew (tea)
2. to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce
3. oldto boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)

Example sentences

• 你擅长烹饪吗？
  Are you good at cooking?
• 汤姆擅长烹饪。
  Tom is good at cooking.
• 我听说你擅长烹饪。
  Wǒ tīngshuō nǐ shàncháng pēngrèn.
  I hear you are good at cooking.
• 这些苹果宜于烹饪。
  These apples are good cookers.
• Tom对烹饪很在行。
  Tom is quite good at cooking.
• 我不知道如何烹调鹿肉。
  I don't know how to cook venison.

Words starting with 烹

• 烹饪pēng rèncooking; culinary arts
• 烹调pēng tiáoto cook
• 烹制pēng zhìto cook; to prepare (food)
• 烹茶pēng cháto brew tea
• 烹调术pēng tiáo shùcookery
• 烹煮pēng zhǔto cook; to boil
• 烹饪法pēng rèn fǎcuisine; culinary art; cookery

Words containing 烹

• 兔死狗烹tù sǐ gǒu pēng(lit.) when the rabbit is dead, the hunting dogs are cooked (idiom)…
• 治大国若烹小鲜zhì dà guó ruò pēng xiǎo xiānruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom)…
• 狡兔死，走狗烹jiǎo tù sǐ , zǒu gǒu pēngsee 兔死狗烹

Characters that look like 烹

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 黑hēiblack; dark; sinister
• 宽kuānwide; broad; loose
• 雳lìused in 霹雳
• 袤màolength; distance from north to south
• 鸾luánmythical bird related to phoenix
• 罡gāngstars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper

Sounds the same

Read pēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 砰(onomatopoeia) bang; thump
• 嘭(onomatopoeia) bang
• 抨attack; impeach
• 怦(onomatopoeia) the thumping of one's heart
• 匉noise of waters
• 漰noise of dashing waves
• 閛the sound of opening or closing the door
• 䦕variant of 閛
• 硑old variant of 砰