肉 (ròu): meat; flesh

Meanings

1 meat; flesh

Characters

肉

ròu

meat; flesh

Examples

HSK 1

你吃肉吗？

Nǐ chī ròu ma?

Do you eat meat?

HSK 3

我想吃牛肉。

Wǒ xiǎng chī niúròu.

I want to eat beef.

HSK 3

妈妈买了一些猪肉。

Māma mǎi le yìxiē zhūròu.

Mom bought some pork.

Tips

usage

When 肉 is used alone without specifying the animal, it usually means pork (猪肉) in China. Other meats: 牛肉 (beef), 鸡肉 (chicken), 羊肉 (lamb).

culture

Pork is by far the most consumed meat in China. China produces and consumes about half of the world's pork.

Components

pictograph

肉 ròu

meat; flesh

Self-component. Pictograph of a cut slab of meat with internal striations marking muscle and sinew - outer frame is the cut shape, inner strokes the marbling. Already this stylized in oracle bones. As Kangxi radical #130 it appears in compounds as the look-alike side-form ⺼ ('meat moon'): 肝 liver, 脏 organ, 胃 stomach, 脸 face, 肌 muscle.

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 115 characters