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  *肉* | 肉* | *肉
meat / flesh / pulp (of a fruit) / (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy / (of a person) flabby / irresolute / Kangxi radical 130
HSK 1
to barbecue meat; to roast meat / barbecued meat; roast meat
HSK 5
muscle / flesh
HSK 5
skin and flesh / superficial / physical (suffering) / bodily
dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish / lavish meal
twice-cooked pork
red meat
excess flesh; unwanted fat; flab; bulge
the person one loves the most; one's most treasured possession
mutton / goat meat
carnivorous
pork
(medicine) polyp
beef
lean meat
to stew meat / stewed meat
pork belly / streaky pork
(coll.) (usually used in the negative) (can't) hurt (to do sth) / (won't) hurt (to do sth)
fat (e.g. pork fat) / fatty meat / (fig.) a gold mine / cash cow
raw meat
walking corpse (idiom) / zombie / person who lives only on the material level
chicken meat
salt pork / bacon / marinaded meat / cured meat
stewed meat
to cut some meat / to cut off a piece of flesh / (fig.) (coll.) to sell at a loss
flesh
flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
pterygium (medicine)
loin (of pork)
venison
plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
bacon / salt-cured meat
plant-based meat
bacon
blood relation / kin / one's flesh and blood
(dialect) lean meat
steamed pork
rotting flesh; carrion
dog meat
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing) (abbr. for 人肉搜索) / human (used attributively, as in 人肉盾牌, human shield)
soft skin and tender flesh (idiom) / smooth-skinned
fierce-looking
vegetarian meat substitute
annoying person / troublemaker / pain in the neck
to put on weight
minced meat
fleshy
ground meat; mincemeat
the flesh of a fruit; pulp
(coll.) teen idol (male)
loin
canned luncheon meat / Spam
lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom) / fig. to both be of equal importance / to value both equally
(dialect) dog meat
breast meat (brisket, chicken breast etc)
crab meat
slow-braised pork belly (Tw)
stir-fried pork, favorite of Northern Song writer Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼, a.k.a. Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡
pork
rice flour meat
lit. to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat (idiom) / fig. to cheat / dishonest advertising / wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue
sweet and sour meat (pork)
hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
nasal polyp
sweet and sour pork / also written 咕嚕肉|咕噜肉
beef grilled on a hot iron plate
sweet and sour meat (pork)
lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight
(Tw) slow-braised pork belly
butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another / internecine strife
yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
Mongolian hot pot / instant-boiled mutton (dish)
sweet and sour pork
veal
feelings deeper than for one's own flesh and blood (idiom) / deep friendship
Turkish döner kebab
variant of 息肉
lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / fig. to be at sb's mercy
dried longan pulp
to have intercourse / to fuck
cold or frozen meat
as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship
döner kebab
pork and scrambled eggs
meat that is not refrigerated after the animal is slaughtered
bacon / smoked ham
sirloin (beef joint)
sweet and sour pork
red braised pork
(coll.) experienced and usually well-positioned middle-aged man
lit. to shed skin, drop flesh / to work as hard as possible / to work one's butt off
meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
lit. even a mosquito, though tiny, provides some nourishment (idiom) / fig. it's better than nothing
lit. even a locust provides some nourishment (idiom) / fig. it's better than nothing
one's own flesh and blood
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
chop / rib meat


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