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肉

Meat
Stroke count: 6

Readings

On readingニク

Meanings

  1. meatRtK
  1. flesh
  2. flesh (of a fruit)
  3. pulp
  4. the physical body (as opposed to the spirit)

Synonyms

ミート印肉

Popular Usage

牛肉豚肉とり肉筋肉

Radicals and components

Radical肉meat

Mnemonic (RtK)

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person (人) · inside · belt · person (人)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1098

Compound words

彼は肉を切り刻んで重さを量った。にく
He cut up the meat and weighed it.tatoeba
彼は肉を食いちぎった。にく
He bit off the meat.tatoeba
彼は肉を一切れ切り取った。にく
He cut off a slice of meat.tatoeba
彼は少しの肉を米少々とまぜてスープを作った。にく
He made the soup by mixing a little meat with some rice.tatoeba
彼は肉体的にも精神的にも野球選手に適している。
He suits a ballplayer mentally, too, physically, too.tatoeba
彼は肉体的、精神的苦痛に耐えてきた。
He has endured physical and mental pain.tatoeba
彼は肉体の苦痛と闘わねばならなかった。
He had to contend against physical suffering.tatoeba
彼は肉屋を開業した。
He set up as a butcher.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

焼き肉が食べたい
やきにくがたべたいI want to eat yakiniku.
熊肉入りのほうとうは、値段の割に美味しくなかったです。
くまにくいりのほうとうは、ねだんのわりにおいしくなかったです。The houtou with bear meat wasn't that delicious for the price.
お肉がおいしい。
おにくがおいしい。The meat is delicious.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

6 strokes

Meat. A cut of meat with streaks of fat.

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