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Chinese symbol for “carnivore”

肉食动物
ròu shí dòng wù
Traditional: 肉食動物
carnivore

The closest CC-CEDICT match for carnivore is 肉食动物 (ròu shí dòng wù), defined as: carnivore.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

肉 ròu
meat; flesh
radical 130 ⾁ · 6 strokes
食 shí
food; to eat
radical 184 ⾷ · 9 strokes
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “carnivore”

WordPinyinMeaning
食肉动物 (食肉動物)shí ròu dòng wùcarnivore

Related words

Other words that share a character with 肉食动物.

WordPinyinMeaning
肌肉jī ròumuscle; flesh
牛肉niú ròubeef
猪肉 (豬肉)zhū ròupork
肉体 (肉體)ròu tǐphysical body
鸡肉 (雞肉)jī ròuchicken meat
烤肉kǎo ròuto barbecue meat; to roast meat; barbecued meat; roast meat
食品shí pǐnfoodstuff; food; provisions
食物shí wùfood
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “carnivore”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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