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饪

rèn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 飪

What 饪 means

1. cooked food
2. to cook (until ready)

Other readings

饪 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• rènvariant of {饪|rèn}

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.
• 正在读烹饪书的女孩是凯特。
  Zhèngzài dú pēngrènshū de nǚhái shì Kǎitè.
  The girl reading a cookbook is Kate.

Words containing 饪

• 烹饪pēng rèncooking; culinary arts
• 烹饪法pēng rèn fǎcuisine; culinary art; cookery

Characters built on 壬

These share the phonetic component 壬 (rén), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 任rènto assign; to appoint; to take up a post
• 妊rènpregnant; pregnancy
• 衽rèn(literary) overlapping part of Chinese gown; lapel; sleeping mat
• 纴rènto weave; to lay warp for weaving; silk thread for weaving

Characters that look like 饪

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

• 饭fàncooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan
• 姊zǐolder sister; Taiwan pr. jiě
• 妞niūgirl
• 妍yánbeautiful
• 佃diànto rent farmland from a landlord
• 钕nǚneodymium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read rèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 认to recognize; to know; to admit
• 任to assign; to appoint; to take up a post
• 韧annealed; pliable but strong; tough
• 刃edge of blade
• 仞unit of length used in ancient times, equal to 7 or 8 Chinese feet 尺
• 妊pregnant; pregnancy
• 纫to thread (a needle); (bound form) to sew; to stitch; (literary) very grateful
• 轫brake
• 衽(literary) overlapping part of Chinese gown; lapel; sleeping mat
• 牣fill up; to stuff
• 讱(literary) slow in speech
• 鵀hoopoe