肉

See also ⺼

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• ⺼ (when used as a left Chinese radical in compositions)

The radical form ⺼ looks very similar to 月 (“moon”), and is often drawn identically in compounds, though they are etymologically distinct, and careful usage distinguishes the cross strokes, with ⺼ written with unattached diagonal strokes. This is particularly an issue in looking up characters by radical; compare 月 index and 肉 index.

The radical form ⺼ may also appear twisted to a diagonal, resembling 夕 with an added dot, as in 祭, 然, and 將.

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – ribs of an animal’s torso.

肉	肉
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

肉 (radical 130 肉+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人月人 (OBO), four-corner 4022₇)

1. flesh
2. meat
3. pulp (of a fruit)
4. KangXi radical 130

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/肉
• 將 (top right component)
• 祭 (top left component)

References

• KangXi: page 973, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1424, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2931, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8089

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Cantonese

Hanzi

肉 (Yale yuk6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

肉 (POJ nyuk, Guangdong ngiuk⁷; niuk⁷ [Meixian], Hagfa Pinyim ngiug5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Noun

肉 (hiragana にく, romaji niku)

1. meat
2. flesh
3. thickness
4. an ink pad

Compounds

• 肉類 (にくるい, nikurui): sort of meats
• 挽肉 (ひきにく, hikiniku): minced meat
• 牡丹肉 (ぼたんにく, botanniku): wildboar meat

Noun

肉 (hiragana しし, romaji shishi)

1. flesh

Kanji

肉 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: にく (niku), じゅう (jū)
• Kun: しし (shishi)

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Korean

Hanja

肉 (hangeul 육, 유, revised yuk, yu, McCune-Reischauer yuk, yu, Yale yuk, yu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɻou̯˥˩/

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Hanzi

肉 (pinyin ròu (rou4), Wade-Giles jou⁴)

1. meat

Compounds

肉案 肉饼 肉搏 肉搏战 肉畜 肉丁 肉嘟嘟, 肉嘟嘟的 肉墩墩, 肉敦敦 肉感 肉红 肉呼呼, 肉乎乎 肉鸡 肉瘤 肉麻 肉囊囊 肉牛 肉排

肉皮 肉皮儿 肉票, 肉票儿 肉禽 肉色 肉身 肉食 肉丝 肉松 肉体 肉痛 肉头 肉馅, 肉馅儿 肉刑 肉眼 肉眼凡胎 肉眼泡儿 肉用鸡 肉欲 肉质 肉中刺 肉猪

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Middle Chinese

Han character

肉 (*njiuk)

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Min Nan

Noun

肉 (traditional and simplified, Bbinping liók/liák/zziók (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou literary, respectively); hiák (Quanzhou colloquial); bbāh (slang))

1. meat
2. main part of thing (in this case 肉 can only be read as bbāh)

Note: the slang reading of this word, bbāh, has no cognate in other dialects of Chinese. It is of possible Austronesian origin (perhaps from Proto-Austronesian babuy, meaning "wild pig" (see baboy)).

Compounds

• 肉酥
• 刀肉

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Vietnamese

Han character

肉 (nhục)