ròu
radical_variant

Meanings

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

Tips

usage
⺼ is the in-compound form of (meat/flesh). Visually identical to the moon radical — but in chars about body parts, organs, or anatomy, the -shape is actually ⺼ (meat-moon, ). Pedagogically called ròuyuè to distinguish from the real (moon). Never written alone; the standalone form is .
history
Originally was a pictograph of a slab of meat with marbling lines. When placed inside compound chars, it flattened into the -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 .
usage
Body/anatomy cue: (liver), (lung), (organ), (belly), (muscle), (face), (stomach), (arm), (foot), (originally a bear). When you see next to a body word, it's actually ⺼.