(ròu) - meat, flesh, pulp of fruit in Mandarin
ròuTraditional: 肉
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
肉
Examples
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I do not really like eating meat.
鲜。
This piece of meat is very fresh.
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Mum is cutting meat in the kitchen.
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The pulp of this fruit is very sweet.
牛鸡。
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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