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Kanji Detail for 肴 - "side dish"

肴

  • Meaning

    肴 means "side dish." Also associated with cooked meat, to disturb.

    1. Cooked meat - Prepared meat of birds, animals, or fish.

    2. To disturb - To disorder.

    3. Side dish - Food eaten while drinking sake.

  • Four-character idioms with 肴

    • 珍味佳肴 ちんみかこう Listen rare delicacies; rare treat
    • 美味佳肴 びみかこう Listen delicacies; epicurean dishes
    • 美酒佳肴 びしゅかこう Listen fine wines and prized delicacies

  • Tattoo check: 肴

    • Verified meaning: side dish
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read さかな)
    • Also carries these associations: cooked meat, to disturb

    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.

  • Name readings of 肴

    Given names 肴(さかな)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    accompaniment for drinks

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cooked or prepared meat

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 肴[yao2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    cooked or prepared meat

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

    Same as 殽. Fish and meat and such. Cooked and eaten is called 肴 (dishes). Also written as 餚.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    sakana(さかな) さかな

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

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    肉 月 (niku・nikuzuki)

  • Related Keywords

    cooked meat to disturb side dish food eaten with alcohol appetizer accompaniment snack relish garnish prepared food pickles

Sentences including 肴

  • Tofu is a good accompaniment for sake.

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