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焼き戻し (やきもどし) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'
tempering ; annealing
Metallurgical heat treatment: reheating quenched steel to a moderate temperature to reduce brittleness while retaining hardness. In Japanese industrial usage, 焼き戻し specifically refers to tempering after quenching, while 焼きなまし (annealing) is a distinct process.
焼や き 戻もど し 温おん 度ど が 高たか い ほど 、 鋼はがね は 軟やわ らかく なる 。
The higher the tempering temperature, the softer the steel becomes.
Written forms 焼や き 戻もど し Usage 7%
Standard kanji spelling for this metallurgical term.
焼やき 戻もど し Usage 93%
Variant spelling with the same reading; less common but still used in technical contexts.
Similar words 焼や き 入い れ Quenching: rapid cooling from high temperature to harden steel. 焼き戻し is the subsequent reheating step.
焼や きなまし Annealing: heating and slow cooling to soften metal. Unlike 焼き戻し, it is not necessarily preceded by quenching.
Etymology Compound of 焼き (yaki, 'baking, heating') and 戻し (modoshi, 'returning, restoring'). The term reflects the process of reheating hardened metal to partially reverse the hardening effect.
