teriyaki
A Japanese cooking technique where meat or fish is grilled or broiled with a glaze of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. Also refers to the dish itself.
Let's have chicken teriyaki for dinner tonight.
This teriyaki sauce is sweet and delicious.
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
Katakana spelling, often used in menus or when emphasizing the dish as a foreign/loanword concept.
Variant spelling without the okurigana り; less common but still encountered.
Variant spelling without the okurigana き; rarely used.
Abbreviated variant; very rare in modern usage.
From 照り (teri, 'gloss, luster', from 照る 'to shine') + 焼き (yaki, 'grilling, broiling', from 焼く 'to grill'). The name refers to the shiny glaze created by the sweet soy sauce during cooking.