肉 (ròu): meaning and stroke order
肉 (ròu) means meat, flesh, pulp (of a fruit), (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy, (of a person) flabby.
肉
- Simplified
- 肉
- Traditional
- 肉 (same form)
- Pinyin
- ròu
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Stroke order of 肉
肉
- ròu meat; flesh
- 6 strokes
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Meaning of 肉
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ròu
- meat
- flesh
- pulp (of a fruit)
- (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
- (of a person) flabby
- irresolute
- Kangxi radical 130
Radical and structure
- 肉
- Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 6 strokes · built from 内 and 人
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Words with 肉
- 牛肉 niú ròu beef
- 猪肉 zhū ròu pork
- 东坡肉 Dōng pō ròu stir-fried pork, favorite of Northern Song writer Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼, a.k.a. Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡
- 肌肉 jī ròu muscle; flesh
肉 in our stories
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晚上，一家人坐在一起吃年夜饭，桌子上有鱼，也有肉。
wǎnshang yì jiā rén zuò zài yìqǐ chī niányèfàn zhuōzi shàng yǒu yú yě yǒu ròu
In the evening the whole family sits down to the New Year's Eve dinner; there is fish on the table, and meat too.
From the story New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
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过了几分钟，艾米的饺子都破了，肉都跑到水里了。
guò le jǐ fēnzhōng Àimǐ de jiǎozi dōu pò le ròu dōu pǎo dào shuǐ lǐ le
A few minutes later all of Amy's dumplings have burst, and the meat has floated out into the water.
From the story Making dumplings HSK 2
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这个姑娘其实是白骨精变的，她听说吃了唐僧的肉就能长生不老。
zhè gè gūniang qíshí shì Báigǔjīng biàn de tā tīngshuō chī le Táng Sēng de ròu jiù néng chángshēng bù lǎo
The woman was really the White Bone Demon in disguise: she had heard that eating Tang Seng's flesh would make her immortal.
From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6
Stories using 肉
- New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
- Making dumplings HSK 2
- Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6
- Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).