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肉

ròu

HSK 2 Character

What 肉 means

1. meat
2. flesh
3. pulp (of a fruit)
4. colloquial(of a fruit) squashy
5. (of a person) flabby
6. irresolute
7. Kangxi radical 130

Example sentences

• 加肉。
  Add meat.
• 吃肉。
  Eat meat.
• 肉眼可见。
  Ròuyǎn kějiàn.
  It is visible to the naked eye.
• 弱肉强食。
  Ruòròuqiángshí.
  The weak are food for the strong.
• 肉冻住了。
  The meat is frozen.
• 肉还是鱼？
  Meat or fish?

Words starting with 肉

• 肉体ròu tǐphysical body
• 肉类ròu lèimeat
• 肉麻ròu másickening; corny; sappy
• 肉丝ròu sīshredded meat; shredded pork
• 肉食ròu shícarnivorous
• 肉身ròu shēncorporeal body
• 肉片ròu piànmeat slice
• 肉眼ròu yǎnnaked eye; layman's eyes
• 肉饼ròu bǐngmeat patty
• 肉质ròu zhìquality of meat; succulent (botany)
• 肉馅ròu xiànground meat; mincemeat
• 肉汤ròu tāngmeat soup; broth
• 肉欲ròu yùcarnal desire
• 肉搏ròu bóto fight hand-to-hand
• 肉末ròu mòground meat
• 肉丁ròu dīngdiced meat
• 肉干ròu gāndried meat; jerky
• 肉偿ròu cháng(fig.) to use sex to pay off (a debt)
• 肉刑ròu xíngcorporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)
• 肉商ròu shāngmeat merchant; butcher
• 肉弹ròu dànsuicide attacker; suicide bomber; voluptuous woman; muscular man
• 肉感ròu gǎnsexiness; sexy; sensuality
• 肉果ròu guǒfleshy fruit; sarcocarp; nutmeg
• 肉条ròu tiáocutlet

Words containing 肉

• 羊肉yáng ròumutton; goat meat
• 肌肉jī ròumuscle; flesh
• 牛肉niú ròubeef
• 猪肉zhū ròupork
• 烤肉kǎo ròuto barbecue meat; to roast meat; barbecued meat; roast meat
• 鸡肉jī ròuchicken meat
• 骨肉gǔ ròublood relation; kin; one's flesh and blood
• 鱼肉yú ròuflesh of fish; fish and meat; (fig.) victims of oppression
• 肥肉féi ròufat (e.g. pork fat); fatty meat; (fig.) a gold mine
• 狗肉gǒu ròudog meat
• 皮肉pí ròuskin and flesh; the physical body; (fig.) the superficial layer; surface aspects
• 血肉xuè ròuflesh
• 瘦肉shòu ròulean meat
• 红烧肉hóng shāo ròured braised pork
• 羊肉串yáng ròu chuànlamb kebab
• 腊肉là ròumeat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
• 牛肉面niú ròu miànbeef noodle soup
• 人肉rén ròuto crowdsource information about sb or sth…
• 心惊肉跳xīn jīng ròu tiàolit. heart alarmed, body leaping (idiom); fear and trepidation in the face of disaster
• 血肉模糊xuè ròu mó hu(idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome
• 涮羊肉shuàn yáng ròuinstant-boiled mutton; thinly sliced mutton cooked briefly in a hot pot
• 食肉shí ròucarnivorous
• 行尸走肉xíng shī zǒu ròuwalking corpse (idiom); zombie; person who lives only on the material level
• 牛肉干niú ròu gāndried beef; beef jerky

Characters that look like 肉

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 同tónglike; same; similar
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 列lièto arrange; to line up; file
• 判pàn(bound form) to differentiate; to distinguish; (bound form) clearly (different)…
• 沟gōuditch; gutter; groove
• 灼zhuóto burn; to sear; to scorch; (bound form) bright; luminous

Sounds the same

Read ròu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宍old variant of 肉