字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCEFrom Xiaoxuetang.
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Human Body & People
肉
肉 flesh, meat
にく niku
6 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 1
Your ink in 肉0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Ribs of an animal’s torso or simply a physical representation of a slice of meat. Stylized into 月 when next to a phonetic component and 𱼀 and/or 夕 inside some characters.
Source: Wiktionary, 肉 (rev. 93434345), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A juicy cut of meat! This radical represents the physical substance of animal and human life. When you see it, think of strength, nutrition, and the literal "flesh and blood" of a creature. It brings the reality of the biological body and the raw materials of nourishment to the kanji it inhabits.”
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 肉, with sourced origins
- 腐rotフ · くさる
府sound + 肉
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 肉 as its radical
Most used first