See also

Translingual

Stroke order
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Alternative forms

  • (when used as a left Chinese radical in compositions)

The radical form ⺼ looks very similar to  (moon), and is often drawn identically in compounds, though they are etymologically distinct, and careful usage distinguishes the cross strokes, with ⺼ written with unattached diagonal strokes. This is particularly an issue in looking up characters by radical; compare 月 index and 肉 index.

The radical form ⺼ may also appear twisted to a diagonal, resembling with an added dot, as in , , and .

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – ribs of an animal’s torso.

肉 肉
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character

(radical 130 +0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人月人 (OBO), four-corner 40227)

  1. flesh
  2. meat
  3. pulp (of a fruit)
  4. KangXi radical 130

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 973, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29236
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1424, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2931, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8089

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Cantonese

Hanzi

(Yale yuk6)


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Hakka

Hanzi

(POJ nyuk, Guangdong ngiuk7; niuk7 [Meixian], Hagfa Pinyim ngiug5)

References


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Japanese

Noun

(hiragana にく, romaji niku)

  1. meat
  2. flesh
  3. thickness
  4. an ink pad

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana しし, romaji shishi)

  1. flesh

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings


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Korean

Hanja

(hangeul , , revised yuk, yu, McCune-Reischauer yuk, yu, Yale yuk, yu)


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Mandarin

Pronunciation

Hanzi

(pinyin ròu (rou4), Wade-Giles jou4)

  1. meat

Compounds

  • 肉案
  • 肉饼
  • 肉搏
  • 肉搏战
  • 肉畜
  • 肉丁
  • 肉嘟嘟, 肉嘟嘟的
  • 肉墩墩, 肉敦敦
  • 肉感
  • 肉红
  • 肉呼呼, 肉乎乎
  • 肉鸡
  • 肉瘤
  • 肉麻
  • 肉囊囊
  • 肉牛
  • 肉排
  • 肉皮
  • 肉皮儿
  • 肉票, 肉票儿
  • 肉禽
  • 肉色
  • 肉身
  • 肉食
  • 肉丝
  • 肉松
  • 肉体
  • 肉痛
  • 肉头
  • 肉馅, 肉馅儿
  • 肉刑
  • 肉眼
  • 肉眼凡胎
  • 肉眼泡儿
  • 肉用鸡
  • 肉欲
  • 肉质
  • 肉中刺
  • 肉猪

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Middle Chinese

Han character

(*njiuk)


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Min Nan

Noun

(traditional and simplified, Bbinping liók/liák/zziók (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou literary, respectively); hiák (Quanzhou colloquial); bbāh (slang))

  1. meat
  2. main part of thing (in this case 肉 can only be read as bbāh)

Note: the slang reading of this word, bbāh, has no cognate in other dialects of Chinese. It is of possible Austronesian origin (perhaps from Proto-Austronesian babuy, meaning "wild pig" (see baboy)).

Compounds

  • 肉酥
  • 刀肉

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhục)

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