HSK 6 · Food

烹饪 pēngrèn “cooking” in Chinese

Traditional 烹飪

What 烹饪 means

  1. cooking
  2. cuisine
  3. culinary arts

How to say 烹饪

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale烹pēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饪rèn4th tone, falling

烹饪 in a sentence

  1. 你擅长烹饪吗？

    Nǐ shàncháng pēngrèn ma?

    Are you good at cooking?

    Sentence #10696088 from Tatoeba

  2. 烹饪课程应该作为学校的必修课。

    Pēngrèn kèchéng yīnggāi zuòwéi xuéxiào de bìxiūkè.

    Cooking should be a compulsory subject at school.

    Sentence #863286 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 烹饪结束后请清洁炉灶和烤箱。

    Pēngrèn jiéshù hòu qǐng qīngjié lúzào hé kǎoxiāng.

    Please clean the stove and oven after cooking.

    Sentence #13556538 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 烹饪 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 烹 (pēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
烹pēngto boil; to brew
  • 亨prospering · hēngSound part
  • 灬fire form of 火 · huǒMeaning part

灬 hints at the meaning (fire); 亨 (hēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with pēng.

The character 饪 (rèn) with each of its parts in a different colour
饪rèncooked food
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 壬part of the characterSound part

How to write 烹饪

烹 11 strokes · 饪 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

烹饪 (pēngrèn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 烹饪 (pēngrèn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 烹饪

More words: Food & Dining

佳肴jiāyáo · fine dish咀嚼jǔjué · to chew可口kěkǒu · tasty狼吞虎咽lángtūnhǔyàn · to wolf down (food)品尝pǐncháng · to taste清真qīngzhēn · halal涮火锅shuànhuǒguō · to eat hotpot素食sùshí · vegetarian food

FAQs

烹饪 (pēngrèn) means “cooking” or “cuisine”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pēngrèn: pēng with a 1st tone, then rèn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 烹饪 is written 烹飪. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pengren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 烹饪 from the suggestions. Typing pengren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
烹饪 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.