Chinese symbol for “cooking”
烹饪
pēng rèn
Traditional: 烹飪
cooking; culinary arts
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cooking is 烹饪 (pēng rèn), defined as: cooking; culinary arts.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cooking”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 烹饪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烹调 (烹調) | pēng tiáo | to cook |
| 烹煮 | pēng zhǔ | to cook; to boil |
| 烹制 (烹製) | pēng zhì | to cook; to prepare (food) |
| 烹饪法 (烹飪法) | pēng rèn fǎ | cuisine; culinary art |
| 烹茶 | pēng chá | to brew tea |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cooking”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.