rèn

cooked food

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

壬 sound component

  Sound component

rén

  

(thread spool),9th heavenly stem

Evolution

飪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

rèn

cooked food; cook until well done; to cook (until ready)

Most common words with 飪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

烹饪

cooking

cooked food

烹饪法

cuisine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n[ə]mʔ

nyimX

rèn

thoroughly cooked


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4988% of movies

2792nd most common character in movies

4491st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+98EA

Shuowen

“飪,大熟也。从食,壬聲。,古文飪。恁,亦古文飪。”


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