腌
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat); to marinate
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 肉 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 腌
- Common rank
- #3,108
- Unicode
- U+814C
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Formation & memory
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How 腌 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Meat ⺼ left 奄 in salt; 奄 also provides the pronunciation
Components ⺼ 奄
Words with 腌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腌黄瓜 | pickle; pickled cucumber | |
| 腌制 | marinated; to make by pickling, salting or curing | |
| 腌肉 | salt pork; bacon; marinaded meat; cured meat | |
| 腌货 | pickles | |
| 腌货 | pickles | |
| 腌泡 | to marinade | |
| 腌汁 | marinade (sauce) | |
| 腌渍 | to pickle; cured; salted | |
| 腌臜 | dirty; filthy; awkward; disgusting; nauseating; Taiwan pr. [ang1 zang1] |