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Chinese symbol for “jerky”

肉干
ròu gān
Traditional: 肉乾
dried meat; jerky

The closest CC-CEDICT match for jerky is 肉干 (ròu gān), defined as: dried meat; jerky.

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Characters and stroke order

肉 ròu
meat; flesh
radical 130 ⾁ · 6 strokes
干 gān
arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade
radical 51 ⼲ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 肉干.

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
干部 (幹部)gàn bùcadre; official
干净 (乾淨)gān jìngclean; neat

See also: Japanese symbol for “jerky”.

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.