食肉

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	meat; flesh
trad. (食肉)		食	肉
simp. #(食肉)		食	肉
anagram		肉食

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shíròu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄖㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ juk⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ̍t-ngiuk

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shíròu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄖㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhròu
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-jou⁴
    • Yale: shŕ-ròu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrrow
    • Palladius: шижоу (šižou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʐoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ juk⁶
    • Yale: sihk yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² jʊk̚²/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 食慾／食欲 食肉

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̍t-ngiuk
    • Hakka Romanization System: siid ngiug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sid⁶ ngiug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /sɨt̚⁵ ŋi̯uk̚²/

Verb

食肉

1. to eat meat or other non-vegetarian food

   食肉動物／食肉动物  ―  shíròu dòngwù  ―  carnivorous animal

2. (figurative, literary) to be an official

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
食	肉
しょく Grade: 2	にく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

食(しょく)肉(にく) • (shokuniku) 

1. the consumption of meat
2. edible meat