饪 (rèn): to cook (food until done)

Meanings

她擅长烹饪，做的菜很好吃。

Tā shàncháng pēngrèn, zuò de cài hěn hǎochī.

She is skilled at cooking and makes delicious dishes.

他报了一个烹饪班。

Tā bào le yí gè pēngrèn bān.

He has signed up for a cooking class.

usage

In modern Chinese 饪 appears almost exclusively in 烹饪 (cooking, culinary arts), a slightly formal word for the craft of cooking.

radical

饣 shí

food; to eat (left-side form of 食)

The food radical (left-side form of 食) marks this as something to do with preparing or eating food.

phonetic

壬 rén

ninth heavenly stem

On the right 壬 supplies the sound, with only a tone shift from rén to rèn. It carries no meaning here.

饪 rèn