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Kanji Detail for 肉 - "meat, body"

肉

  • Meaning

    肉 means "meat, body." Also associated with to gain weight.

    1. Meat - Flesh of birds and animals.

    2. Body - The human body; skin; flesh.

    3. To gain weight - To put on flesh.

    4. Voice - Singing voice.

    5. Edible meat - Food meat.

    6. Thickness - The thickness or width of objects.

  • Words using 肉

    • 牛肉 ぎゅうにく Listen beef
    • 筋肉 きんにく Listen muscle
    • 肉親 にくしん Listen blood relationship; blood relative
    • 肉体 にくたい Listen the body; the flesh; the outer man
    • 皮肉 ひにく Listen irony; sarcasm; cynicism
    • 肉体的 にくたいてき Listen bodily; physical; corporeal
    • 豚肉 ぶたにく Listen pork
    • 食肉 しょくにく Listen meat (for consumption)

  • Four-character idioms with 肉

    • 弱肉強食 じゃくにくきょうしょく Listen the law of the jungle; the strong prey on the weak; the weak become the victim of the strong
    • 中肉中背 ちゅうにくちゅうぜい Listen medium build
    • 反間苦肉 はんかんくにく Listen stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
    • 羊頭狗肉 ようとうくにく Listen crying wine and selling vinegar; deceptive advertisement
    • 肉食妻帯 にくじきさいたい Listen meat and matrimony (Buddhism); Buddhist priest eating meat dishes and being married
    • 酒池肉林 しゅちにくりん Listen sumptuous feast; debauch

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    • Verified meaning: meat, body
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to gain weight

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    meat

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    meat; flesh

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The soft and resilient substance in human and animal bodies. What envelops the bones. Composed of protein. Now calling relatives 骨肉 (flesh and blood). Meaning divided from one body. | The human shell is called 肉. Such as 肉刑 (corporal punishment), 肉慾 (carnal desire). Both refer to the external human body. Hence the unlearned are called 行尸走肉 (walking corpse and moving flesh). Seen in (Records of Gleanings). Meaning having only a shell without spirit. | Animal flesh that can be eaten. (Mencius) "The kitchen has fat meat." Calling the wealthy 肉食 (meat-eaters). Based on (Zuo Zhuan). Bullying others with power is called 魚肉 (treat as fish and meat). Meaning cutting them up with knife and chopping board. Such as saying 魚肉鄉里 (oppress the villagers) and such. | The body of a jade disc is called 肉. Seen in (Erya).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    niku(ニク) ニク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    shishi(しし) しし

  • Strokes

    tip

    6 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    肉 月 (niku・nikuzuki)

  • Related Keywords

    meat body to gain weight flesh thickness voice beef chicken pork muscle fat plump

Sentences including 肉

  • Meat or fish?

  • Beef , please.

  • I never eat meat.

  • Would you like meat or fish?

  • Please tell me why you don't eat meat.

  • Pork doesn't agree with me.

  • This pork is a bit off.

  • The dog didn't eat the meat.

  • I don't want meat.

  • Which do you like better , meat or fish?

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