JLPT N46画 · 6 strokesradical 肉grade 2freq #3000
meat
On'yomi (音読み)
- ニク
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
- にく
About this kanji
The kanji 肉 means "meat" and is used primarily as a noun. You will often come across it in food-related contexts, such as 肉料理 (にくりょうり), which refers to meat dishes, and various types of meat like 牛肉 (ぎゅうにく) for beef, 鶏肉 (とりにく) for chicken meat, and 豚肉 (ぶたにく) for pork. When you want to talk about different meats in Japan, this kanji will be essential. A useful note is that when counting individual pieces of meat, other specific counters might be used to denote quantity more precisely.
Example sentences
肉は毎日食べません。
I don't eat meat every day.
Meanings across languages
- English
- meat
- Tiếng Việt
- thịt
- 日本語
- 肉
- 한국어
- 고기
- 中文
- 肉
- id
- daging
- th
- เนื้อสัตว์
- es
- carne
- fr
- viande
- de
- Fleisch
- pt
- carne
Common compounds
- 肉料理にくりょうりmeat dishes
- 牛肉ぎゅうにくbeef
- 鶏肉とりにくchicken meat
- 豚肉ぶたにくpork
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