meat

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script depicting the sinews and muscle fibers of an animal; it was later simplified into a grid-like pattern of vertical strokes in seal script.

Mnemonic: The parallel vertical strokes resemble the muscle fibers and sinews inside an animal's body.

• 腹fù🔊

  abdomen

  13 strokes

• 肿zhǒng🔊

  to swell

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 腻nì🔊

  greasy

  13 strokes

• 肠cháng🔊

  intestines

  HSK 5

  13 strokes

• 腾téng🔊

  (bound form) to gallop; to prance

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 腮sāi🔊

  variant of 腮[sai1]

  13 strokes

• 腜méi🔊

  quickening of the fetus

  13 strokes

• 腠còu🔊

  the tissue between the skin and the flesh

  13 strokes

• 腥xīng🔊

  fishy (smell)

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 腧shù🔊

  (bound form) acupuncture point

  13 strokes

• 腩nǎn🔊

  brisket

  13 strokes

• 腬róu🔊

  greasy (Cantonese)

  13 strokes

• 腭è🔊

  palate

  13 strokes

• 腯tú🔊

  fat (of pigs)

  13 strokes

• 腶duàn🔊

  dried meat

  13 strokes

• 腺xiàn🔊

  gland

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 腼miǎn🔊

  used in 靦腆|腼腆[mian3 tian3]

  13 strokes

• 腽wà🔊

  used in 膃肭|腽肭[wa4 na4]

  13 strokes

• 膇zhuì🔊

  swelling of foot

  13 strokes

• 膀bǎng🔊

  variant of 膀[bang3]

  14 strokes

• 膜mó🔊

  membrane

  HSK 6

  14 strokes

• 膏gāo🔊

  ointment

  14 strokes

• 腐fǔ🔊

  decay

  14 strokes

• 膂lǚ🔊

  backbone

  14 strokes

• 膆sù🔊

  (literary) fat

  14 strokes

• 膈gé🔊

  diaphragm (anatomy)

  14 strokes

• 膊bó🔊

  shoulder

  14 strokes

• 膌jí🔊

  old variant of 瘠[ji2]

  14 strokes

• 膑bìn🔊

  variant of 髕|髌[bin4]

  14 strokes

• 膝xī🔊

  old variant of 膝[xi1]

  15 strokes

• 胶jiāo🔊

  to glue

  15 strokes

• 膛táng🔊

  (bound form) hollow space

  15 strokes

• 膔lù🔊

  (archaic) stomach rumbling; borborygmus

  15 strokes

• 膗chuái🔊

  (dialect) grossly overweight; obese

  15 strokes

• 膘biāo🔊

  (usu. of livestock) fat

  15 strokes

• 肤fū🔊

  skin

  15 strokes

• 䏝zhuān🔊

  (dialect) gizzard

  15 strokes

• 膟lǜ🔊

  sacrificial flesh

  15 strokes

• 膣zhì🔊

  vagina

  15 strokes

• 膵cuì🔊

  pancreas

  15 strokes

• 膙jiǎng🔊

  (bound form) callus

  16 strokes

• 膦lìn🔊

  phosphine

  16 strokes

• 膨péng🔊

  swollen

  16 strokes

• 膪chuài🔊

  used in 囊膪[nang1 chuai4]

  16 strokes

• 膫liáo🔊

  male genitals

  16 strokes

• 膬cuì🔊

  old variant of 脆[cui4]

  16 strokes

• 膰fán🔊

  cooked meat used in sacrifice

  16 strokes

• 膲jiāo🔊

  see 三膲[san1 jiao1]

  16 strokes