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饪 is a phonosemantic compound combining the food radical 饣 (simplified from 食) on the left, which signals a meaning related to cooking, and the phonetic component 壬 (rèn) on the right. The traditional form is 飪, using the full radical 食. The character originally meant to cook food thoroughly. While it could function as an independent verb in ancient Chinese, today it appears almost exclusively as a bound morpheme, most notably in 烹饪 (pēngrèn), the standard word for the culinary arts and professional cooking.
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