HSK 5 · Body

肌肉 jīròu “muscle” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 肌肉 means

  1. muscle
  2. flesh

How to say 肌肉

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale肌jī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale肉ròu4th tone, falling

肌肉 in a sentence

  1. 游泳锻炼肌肉。

    Yóuyǒng duànliàn jīròu.

    Swimming builds muscle.

    Sentence #465929 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 在泳池游完泳后要拉伸肌肉。

    Zài yǒngchí yóuwán yǒng hòu yào lāshēn jīròu.

    Stretch your muscles after swimming in the pool.

    Sentence #13867395 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 记住，运动有助于增强肌肉和骨骼。

    Jìzhù, yùndòng yǒuzhùyú zēngqiáng jīròu hé gǔgé.

    Remember, exercise helps strengthen your muscles and bones.

    Sentence #13580007 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 肌肉 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 肌 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
肌jīflesh; muscle
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 几table · jīSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 几 (jī) hints at the sound. Compare it with jī.

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 肌肉

肌 6 strokes · 肉 6 strokes

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

Words related to 肌肉

Words with 肉

肉ròu · meat羊肉yángròu · lamb

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FAQs

肌肉 (jīròu) means “muscle” or “flesh”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jīròu: jī with a 1st tone, then ròu with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 肌肉 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jirou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 肌肉 from the suggestions. Typing jirou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
肌肉 is an HSK 5 word in the 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.