rèn
cooked food
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 壬 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*n[ə]mʔ | nyimX | rèn | thoroughly cooked |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.4988% of movies
2792nd most common character in movies
4491st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+98EA |
Shuowen | “飪,大熟也。从食,壬聲。,古文飪。恁,亦古文飪。” |
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