Chinese symbol for “marinade”
腌汁
yān zhī
Traditional: 醃汁
marinade (sauce)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for marinade is 腌汁 (yān zhī), defined as: marinade (sauce).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “marinade”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 腌汁.
| 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 |
| 腌臜 (腌臢) | ā zā | dirty; filthy |
| 腌货 (腌貨) | yān huò | pickles |
| 果汁 | guǒ zhī | fruit juice |
| 多汁 | duō zhī | succulent; juicy |
| 绞尽脑汁 (絞盡腦汁) | jiǎo jìn nǎo zhī | to rack one's brains |
See also: Japanese symbol for “marinade”.
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.