Come learn 3000+ Chinese characters with HanziHero!

HSK
7-9+

cook

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

ren4 rèn

Meaning


Primary

cook

Alternatives

cooking, cooked, cooks

Mnemonic


[r-] Robin Hood is in the [4] bathroom of the [-(e)n] infirmary where he is 飪 cooking some 食 food. He does so by taking a very hot 壬 spool of thread and wrapping some raw 食 food with it, slowly 飪 cooking it. When he is done he washes off the 食 food and 壬 spool of thread in the sink and sits there on the tile floor eating his 飪 cooked 食 food while the nurses look at him suspiciously.

Similar Meaning Characters


Same Pronunciation