Chinese symbol for “marinated”

腌制

yān zhì

Traditional: 腌製

marinated; to make by pickling, salting or curing

The closest CC-CEDICT match for marinated is 腌制 (yān zhì), defined as: marinated; to make by pickling, salting or curing.

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Characters and stroke order

腌 yān

to salt, to cure; to pickle, to marinate

radical 130 ⾁ · 12 strokes

制 zhì

system; to establish; to manufacture; to overpower

radical 18 ⼑ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

製 zhì

Related words

Other words that share a character with 腌制.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
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
控制	kòng zhì	to control
制度	zhì dù	system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution
限制	xiàn zhì	to restrict; to limit

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.