肉
Meat
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| n/i | にく | 肉 |
Meaning: Meat
The meat radical and meat are the same in looks as well as and meaning.
Study those radicals, and perhaps we’ll eat some meat tonight.
Reading: n/i
No worthwhile on’yomi mode for this kanji – go ahead and learn the kun’yomi instead!
Vocabulary
You know there’s people-eating going on here, with this kanji. So, when you think of this meat, you’ll have to think about who’s meat it is. In this case, it’s Nick‘s (にく) meat.
Do you know someone named nick you can imagine? There’s celebrities too, if you don’t have someone. Someone like Nick Cage would do the trick.
a 肉（にく）＝ Meat
- Meaning: The same as the kanji.
- Reading: The kun’yomi reading, which you just learned below the vocab section!
a 牛肉（ぎゅうにく）＝ Beef
- Combo: 牛 (cow) + 肉 (meat)
- Meaning: Makes sense, right? Cow meat is beef.
- Reading: The on’yomi and kun’yomi readings of the kanji. I guess you can think of 肉 like a body part, right? Because body parts tend to have a kun’yomi reading.
a 皮肉（ひにく）＝ Irony, sarcasm
- Combo: 皮 (skin) + 肉 (meat)
- Reading: kun’yomi readings – these are body parts!