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.

• 膳shàn🔊

  variant of 膳[shan4]

  16 strokes

• 臀tún🔊

  buttocks; hips; rump

  17 strokes

• 胆dǎn🔊

  gall bladder

  HSK 5

  17 strokes

• 臂bì🔊

  arm

  17 strokes

• 脓nóng🔊

  pus

  17 strokes

• 膺yīng🔊

  breast

  17 strokes

• 膻shān🔊

  variant of 膻[shan1]

  17 strokes

• 脍kuài🔊

  chopped meat or fish

  17 strokes

• 臁lián🔊

  sides of the lower part of the leg

  17 strokes

• 臃yōng🔊

  see 臃腫|臃肿[yong1 zhong3]

  17 strokes

• 臄jué🔊

  palate

  17 strokes

• 臆yì🔊

  (bound form) chest; breast

  17 strokes

• 臊sāo🔊

  to smell of urine (or sweat etc)

  17 strokes

• 臌gǔ🔊

  dropsical

  17 strokes

• 脐qí🔊

  (bound form) the navel; the umbilicus

  18 strokes

• 臐xūn🔊

  lamb soup

  18 strokes

• 臑nào🔊

  biceps (in Chinese medicine)

  18 strokes

• 臖xìng🔊

  to swell

  20 strokes

• 胪lú🔊

  belly

  20 strokes

• 臛huò🔊

  (literary) meat broth

  20 strokes

• 臜zā🔊

  used in 腌臢|腌臜[a1 za1]

  20 strokes

• 脏zàng🔊

  viscera

  HSK 2

  21 strokes

• 臞qú🔊

  variant of 癯[qu2]

  22 strokes