CHINESE SCRIPT

CHINESE CHARACTER FORMATION & ETYMOLOGY

 

 

肉

 

 

6 strokes ( 冂 )

ㄖㄡ4, ㄖㄨ4 (row4, ru4)

ròu, rù

 

肉 = meat; flesh => pictographic representation of an animal's rib cage (radical 130), formed by the individual characters 冂 (radical 13) + 仌

related: 背

 

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