鱼肉 (yúròu): fish meat; flesh of fish

Meanings

1 fish meat; flesh of fish
2 (figurative) to prey on; to cruelly oppress

Characters

鱼

Examples

这道菜的鱼肉很嫩。

Zhè dào cài de yúròu hěn nèn.

The fish meat in this dish is very tender.

贪官鱼肉百姓。

Tānguān yúròu bǎixìng.

Corrupt officials prey on the common people.

Tips

usage

As a verb, 鱼肉 means to treat people like fish and meat on a cutting board — to exploit and oppress them. The idiom 人为刀俎，我为鱼肉 (rén wéi dāozǔ, wǒ wéi yúròu) means 'they hold the knife, we are the fish' — at someone else's mercy.