人肉

Chinese

		man; person; people	meat; flesh
simp. and trad. (人肉)		人	肉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rénròu

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ ㄖㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁴ juk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rénròu
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ ㄖㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rénròu
    • Wade–Giles: jên²-jou⁴
    • Yale: rén-ròu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renrow
    • Palladius: жэньжоу (žɛnʹžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵ ʐoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan⁴ juk⁶
    • Yale: yàhn yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁴ juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁴ yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²¹ jʊk̚²/

Noun

人肉

1. human flesh; human meat
2. (neologism) human flesh search engine
3. (Cantonese, attributive) human-

   人肉錄音機／人肉录音机 [Cantonese]  ―  jan⁴ juk⁶ luk⁶ jam¹ gei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  one who only repeats what had been said, like a tape recorder (literally, “human tape recorder”)

Verb

人肉

1. (neologism) to “human flesh search”, to dox, i.e. to collectively search and distribute one's personal information over the Internet (in an attempt to shame the individual); to doxx

Derived terms

• 人肉市場／人肉市场 (rénròu shìchǎng)
• 人肉搜索 (rénròu sōusuǒ)
• 人肉搜索引擎 (rénròu sōusuǒ yǐnqíng)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
人	肉
にん Grade: 1	にく Grade: 2
on’yomi

Kanji in this term
人	肉
じん Grade: 1	にく Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

人(じん)肉(にく) or 人(にん)肉(にく) • (jinniku or ninniku) 

1. human meat

Usage notes

More commonly used in reference to cannibalism.