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⺼

ròu
radical variant

Meanings

  1. 1 flesh/meat radical (variant of 肉)
  2. 2 compound-position form of the meat radical, Kangxi #130

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usage
⺼ is the in-compound form of 肉 (meat/flesh). Visually identical to the moon radical 月 - but in chars about body parts, organs, or anatomy, the 月-shape is actually ⺼ (meat-moon, 肉月). Pedagogically called ròuyuè to distinguish from the real 月 (moon). Never written alone; the standalone form is 肉.
history
Originally 肉 was a pictograph of a slab of meat with marbling lines. When placed inside compound chars, it flattened into the 月-look-alike ⺼. Dictionaries since the Kangxi era have indexed body-part chars under the meat radical even when modern fonts render the piece as moon-shaped 月.
usage
Body/anatomy cue: 肝 (liver), 肺 (lung), 脏 (organ), 肚 (belly), 肌 (muscle), 脸 (face), 胃 (stomach), 胳 (arm), 脚 (foot), 能 (originally a bear). When you see 月 next to a body word, it's actually ⺼.

Radical

Meat Kangxi #130

The flesh radical. Indexes characters for body parts, organs, and meat, one of the most productive radicals in the language. In compound positions it usually appears as the look-alike 月 (so-called 'meat moon'), so chars like 肝, 脏, 肚, 脸, 胃 belong to this family rather than to the moon radical.

Forms
肉 ròu
Default 2 characters
⺼ ròu
Left 116 characters

Used in

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Showing 6 of 116 · left form ⺼ of 肉
能 néng
can · to be able to
脸 liǎn
face
脚 jiǎo
foot · leg (of an animal or object)
腿 tuǐ
leg
脱 tuō
to take off; to remove (clothing) · to shed; to come off
肯 kěn
to be willing to; to agree to; to consent