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.
teriyaki sauce
teriyaki burger
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.