Meat in Chinese (Mandarin): 肉 (ròu)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 肉

• 肉

  Meat. It began as a drawing of a slice of meat.

  6 strokes

Fourth tone. Meats are named for the animal: 猪肉 (zhūròu) is pork, 牛肉 (niúròu) beef and 鸡肉 (jīròu) chicken.

More examples with 肉

• 我喜欢吃肉。

  我喜歡吃肉。

  Wǒ xǐhuan chī ròu.

  I like eating meat.

• 这块肉很香。

  這塊肉很香。

  Zhè kuài ròu hěn xiāng.

  This piece of meat smells good.

How to write 肉 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.