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肉 kanji
meat
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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ニク
Kun readings
しし
Words with 肉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —人肉嗜食cannibalism; anthropophagy; eating human flesh
- —カポジ肉腫Kaposi's sarcoma
- —肉体労働者manual laborer; manual labourer
- —肉切り包丁carving knife; butcher's knife; cleaver; meat chopper
- —リンパ肉腫lymphosarcoma
- —肉が落ちるto slim down; to lose weight
- —肉を付けるto add meat (or weight); to add substance (to an essay, etc.)
- —血肉の争いfamily quarrel
- —骨肉の争いfamily quarrel
- —筋肉弛緩剤muscle relaxant
- —異物肉芽腫foreign-body granuloma
- —食肉加工品processed meat product
- —運命の皮肉irony of fate; twist of fate
- —牛脂注入肉processed meat injected with a beef tallow mixture
- —筋肉内注射intramuscular injection
- —肉食系女子carnivorous female; predatory woman; aggressive woman who takes the initiative in relationships with men
- —こま切れ肉pieces of meat (often sold in a pack); shaved meat
- —骨肉相食むto have a consanguineous feud; to fight between family members; to have an internecine feud
- —合い挽き肉(mixture of) ground beef and pork
- —食肉処理場meat-processing plant