肉 — Chinese character
肉
ròu
meat; flesh
- Pinyin
- ròu
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 冂 仌
- Formation
- pictographic — Meat on the ribs of an animal
- Japanese
- 肉 as a kanji
Common words with 肉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肌肉 | jī ròu | muscle; flesh |
| 牛肉 | niú ròu | beef |
| 猪肉 (豬肉) | zhū ròu | pork |
| 肉体 (肉體) | ròu tǐ | physical body |
| 鸡肉 (雞肉) | jī ròu | chicken meat |
| 烤肉 | kǎo ròu | to barbecue meat; to roast meat; barbecued meat; roast meat |
| 肉类 (肉類) | ròu lèi | meat |
| 羊肉 | yáng ròu | mutton; goat meat |
| 腊肉 (臘肉) | là ròu | meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month) |
| 狗肉 | gǒu ròu | dog meat |
| 血肉 | xuè ròu | flesh |
| 肉棒 | ròu bàng | meat stick; penis |
English words written with 肉
肉 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 6 · Art of War 1 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 21 · Zhuangzi 10
- Analects 7.13
- Analects 10.8
- Analects 10.15
- Art of War 9.34
- Hexagram 21
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 1A.4
- Mencius 1A.7
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