zhǒu
noun #16,879

Meanings

  1. 1 elbow
  2. 2 pork shoulder

Examples

HSK 4
Jīntiān de hóngshāo zhǒuzi hěn hǎochī.
Today's braised pork shoulder is delicious.
HSK 5
Tā bù xiǎoxīn zhuàng dào le zhǒu.
He accidentally bumped his elbow.

Tips

usage
肘子 refers to pork elbow/shoulder, a classic Chinese braised dish. 手肘 is the more common way to say 'elbow' (body part) in speech.

Components

radical
ròu
flesh; body (radical form of 肉)
Left flesh-meat radical - the side form used for body parts, visually identical to (moon) but a separate radical with the inner strokes meeting the frame as flesh-fibres. Indexes in the anatomy family alongside , , , - every member names a part of the body.
semantic
cùn
inch; pulse point
Right - originally a hand with a marker stroke at the wrist showing the pulse point, the anatomical unit of one Chinese inch. Combined with the flesh radical, the compound reads 'the flesh-joint just past the inch-mark on the arm' - exactly the elbow, the bend a hand's reach away from the wrist.

Stroke Order

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