HSK 6 · Body

脂肪 zhīfáng “fat (body or dietary)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 脂肪 means

  1. fat (body or dietary)
  2. fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food)

How to say 脂肪

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale脂zhī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale肪fáng2nd tone, rising

脂肪 in a sentence

  1. 切除这块肉的脂肪。

    Qiēchú zhè kuài ròu de zhīfáng.

    Trim the fat off this meat.

    Sentence #798271 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 脂肪 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 脂 (zhī) with each of its parts in a different colour
脂zhīfat
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 旨aim · zhǐSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 旨 (zhǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhī.

The character 肪 (fáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
肪fánganimal fat
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 方square · fāngSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fáng.

How to write 脂肪

脂 10 strokes · 肪 8 strokes

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

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FAQs

脂肪 (zhīfáng) means “fat (body or dietary)” or “fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhīfáng: zhī with a 1st tone, then fáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 脂肪 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhifang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 脂肪 from the suggestions. Typing zhifang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
脂肪 is an HSK 6 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.