rèn

cooked food

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

壬 sound component

  Sound component

rén

  

(thread spool),9th heavenly stem

Evolution

饪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
饪 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

rèn

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

() 

rèn

variant of |[rèn]

Most common words with 饪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

烹饪

cooking

cooked food

烹饪法

cuisine

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

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+996A


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