Chinese symbol for “marinate”
腌
yān
Traditional: 醃
to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat); to marinate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for marinate is 腌 (yān), defined as: to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat); to marinate.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “marinate”.
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.