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.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “carnivore”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 肉食动物.
| 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 |
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; 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.