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肉 — meat, flesh

にく肉 meat

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes food

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

Meanings

meat
flesh

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).

肉(にく) niku meat 肉(にく) 体(たい) nikutai physical body 牛(ぎゅう) 肉(にく) gyuuniku beef 皮(ひ) 肉(にく) hiniku irony 焼(やき) 肉(にく) yakiniku grilled meat 筋(きん) 肉(にく) kinniku muscle 豚(ぶた) 肉(にく) butaniku pork 鶏(とり) 肉(にく) toriniku chicken meat

Appears in idioms

弱肉強食四字熟語

weak, meat, strong, eat

中肉中背四字熟語

middle, meat, middle, stature

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5
6

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

冂 upside-down box

Used as component in (1)

くさる腐 rot

Pictographic character. 冂 and inner strokes originally depicted strips of meat or flesh.

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.