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Chinese symbol for “flesh”

肌
jī
(bound form) flesh; muscle

The closest CC-CEDICT match for flesh is 肌 (jī), defined as: (bound form) flesh; muscle.

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Characters and stroke order

肌 jī
flesh, skin; muscle, tissue; meat on bones
radical 130 ⾁ · 6 strokes

Other Chinese words for “flesh”

WordPinyinMeaning
血肉xuè ròuflesh
肉ròumeat; flesh
肌肉jī ròumuscle; flesh
肌肤 (肌膚)jī fūskin; flesh
体肤 (體膚)tǐ fūskin; flesh

Related words

Other words that share a character with 肌.

WordPinyinMeaning
肌肉jī ròumuscle; flesh
肌肤 (肌膚)jī fūskin; flesh
腹肌fù jīabdominal muscle
心肌xīn jīmyocardium
肌肉男jī ròu nánmuscular man; muscleman
肌体 (肌體)jī tǐthe body; organism (usually human)

See also: Japanese symbol for “flesh”.

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.