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(ròu) - meat, flesh, pulp of fruit in Mandarin

ròu

Traditional: 肉

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Translation

meat, flesh, pulp of fruit

Word origin

A pictograph that originally depicted a slab of flesh with the lines of muscle inside, the source of the flesh radical seen in many body-part characters.

Origin
pictograph
Root
肉 (a drawing of a piece of flesh)

Stroke order

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Examples

I do not really like eating meat.

xiān

This piece of meat is very fresh.

Mum is cutting meat in the kitchen.

The pulp of this fruit is very sweet.

niú

Beef is more expensive than chicken.

肉 (ròu) is a noun meaning meat or flesh, and by extension the pulp of a fruit. It combines with animal names, as in 牛肉 (beef) and 鸡肉 (chicken).

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This word is part of lesson 33.