肉 — meat, flesh
にく
肉
meat
にく
U+8089
Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard.
Freq #986
Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common.
Heisig #1054
Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.
Radical #130
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Meanings
- meat
- flesh
Readings
- On'yomi
- にく niku
- Kun'yomi
- しし shishi
word
にく niku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).
しし ・じし shishi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).
Words by frequency and grade
17 wordsEach dot is a word containing 肉: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.
S = secondary school · 9 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.
Appears in idioms
Components
Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.
Used as component in (1)
Pictographic character. 冂 and inner strokes originally depicted strips of meat or flesh.