腌 — Chinese character
腌
yān
to salt, to cure; to pickle, to marinate
- Pinyin
- yān
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 奄
- Formation
- ideographic — Meat ⺼ left 奄 in salt; 奄 also provides the pronunciation
Common words with 腌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腌制 (腌製) | yān zhì | marinated; to make by pickling, salting or curing |
| 腌渍 (醃漬) | yān zì | to pickle; cured |
| 腌肉 (醃肉) | yān ròu | salt pork; bacon |
| 腌汁 (醃汁) | yān zhī | marinade (sauce) |
| 腌臜 (腌臢) | ā zā | dirty; filthy |
| 腌货 (腌貨) | yān huò | pickles |
| 腌泡 (醃泡) | yān pào | to marinade |
| 腌货 (醃貨) | yān huò | pickles |
| 腌黄瓜 (醃黃瓜) | yān huáng guā | pickle; pickled cucumber |
English words written with 腌
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.