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脍

膾
kuài
noun #74,065

Meanings

  1. 1 finely sliced raw meat or fish
  2. 2 to slice (meat or fish) thinly

Examples

这首诗千年来脍炙人口。
Zhè shǒu shī qiān nián lái kuàizhìrénkǒu.
This poem has been on everyone's lips for a thousand years.
古人食不厌精，脍不厌细。
Gǔrén shí bú yàn jīng, kuài bú yàn xì.
The ancients liked their food refined and their sliced meat cut fine.

Tips

culture
Best known from 脍炙人口, literally 'sliced meat and roast meat enjoyed by all', used for a poem or saying that everyone loves and quotes. The food sense itself is now mostly historical.

Components

radical
⺼ ròu
flesh; meat radical
The meat-flesh radical (a form of 肉), not the moon. It marks the character as being about meat, here finely cut raw flesh.
phonetic
会 huì
to gather; to be able
Provides the sound, read 会 on its own and shifted to kuài here. It serves only as the phonetic cue.

Stroke Order

脍 kuài