大肉

dàròu
noun #24,509

Meanings

  1. 1 pork (regional term)
  2. 2 fatty pork

Examples

Xīnjiāng de dàpánjī lǐ fàng le hěn duō dàròu.
Xinjiang-style big plate chicken contains a lot of pork.
Zhè dào cài yòng de shì hóngshāo dàròu, hěn xià fàn.
This dish uses red-braised pork belly — great with rice.

Tips

culture
大肉 is a colloquial, regional term for pork used especially in northwestern China (Gansu, Shaanxi, Xinjiang). In areas with large Muslim populations, the term can carry a loaded social meaning — used by non-Muslim locals to refer to pork explicitly when distinguishing from halal food.

Stroke Order

ròu