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鱼肉

yú ròu

2-character word Traditional 魚肉

What 鱼肉 means

1. flesh of fish
2. fish and meat
3. (fig.) victims of oppression
4. (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)

The characters in 鱼肉

• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼
• 肉ròumeat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit)

Example sentences

• 他不喜欢鱼肉。
  Tā bù xǐhuan yú ròu.
  He doesn't like fish.
• 给我三片鲑鱼肉。
  Give me three pieces of salmon.
• “是的，”狄马一边回答，一边把黏在他右边衣袖的一块吃剩的鱼肉拨走：“我想要那边的那一件。”
  “ shìde,” dí mǎ yībiān huídá, yībiān bǎ nián zài tā yòubian yīxiù de yīkuài chī shèng de yú ròu bō zǒu:“ wǒ xiǎngyào nàbian de nà yī jiàn.”
  "Yes," Dima replied, brushing off a piece of half-eaten fish that had gotten stuck to his right sleeve. "I'd like to buy that one there."
• 「是的，」狄马一边回答，一边把黏在他右边衣袖的一块吃剩的鱼肉拨走：「我想要那边的那一件。」
  "Yes," Dima replied, brushing off a piece of half-eaten fish that had gotten stuck to his right sleeve. "I'd like to buy that one there."

Words starting with 鱼肉

• 鱼肉百姓yú ròu bǎi xìngto prey on the people

Words containing 鱼肉

• 自相鱼肉zì xiāng yú ròubutchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another; internecine strife
• 人为刀俎，我为鱼肉rén wéi dāo zǔ , wǒ wéi yú ròu(lit.) to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom); (fig.) to be at sb's mercy