HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Food

肉 ròu “meat” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 肉 means

  1. meat
  2. flesh
  3. pulp (of a fruit)
  4. (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
  5. (of a person) flabby
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • irresolute

How to say 肉

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale肉ròu4th tone, falling

肉 in a sentence

  1. 你们吃肉吗？

    Nǐmen chī ròu ma?

    Do you eat meat?

    Sentence #760125 from Tatoeba

  2. 肉还是鱼？

    Ròu háishi yú?

    Meat or fish?

    Sentence #1358670 from Tatoeba

  3. 他用刀切了肉。

    Tā yòng dāo qiē le ròu.

    He cut the meat with a knife.

    Sentence #657619 from Tatoeba

How 肉 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 肉 (ròu) with each of its parts in a different colour
肉ròumeat
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 仌frozen · bīng

Memory aidDrawn from a cut of meat showing its grain: meat.

How to write 肉

肉 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

肉 (ròu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 肉 (ròu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 肉

Words with 肉

羊肉yángròu · lamb肌肉jīròu · muscle

More words: Food & Drink

红茶hóngchá · black tea绿茶lǜchá · green tea面miàn · noodles奶茶nǎichá · milk tea饱bǎo · eat until full菜单càidān · menu蛋糕dàngāo · cake饿è · hungry

FAQs

肉 (ròu) means “meat” or “flesh”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it ròu: ròu with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 肉 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type rou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 肉 from the suggestions. Typing rou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
肉 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.