pēng

boil

Components
亨 sound component

  Sound component

hēng

  

smoothly

灬 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāohuǒ

  

fire

fire

Definitions

 

pēng

boil, cook; quick fry, stir fry; cooking method; to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China)

Most common words with 烹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

烹饪

cooking

烹调

to cook

cooking method

烹饪法

cuisine

烹茶

to brew tea

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[p.qʰ]ˤraŋ

phaeng

pēng

boil (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.2356% of movies

2654th most common character in movies

3461st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+70F9


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