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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
fierce-looking
blood relation / kin / one's flesh and blood
lit. even a mosquito, though tiny, provides some nourishment (idiom) / fig. it's better than nothing
(medicine) polyp
lit. to shed skin, drop flesh / to work as hard as possible / to work one's butt off
pork
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
chicken meat
mutton / goat meat
beef
flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
walking corpse (idiom) / zombie / person who lives only on the material level
sirloin (beef joint)
bacon / smoked ham
stewed meat
flesh
canned luncheon meat / Spam
loin
red braised pork
soft skin and tender flesh (idiom) / smooth-skinned
the flesh of a fruit; pulp
(dialect) lean meat
(dialect) dog meat
cold or frozen meat
fat (e.g. pork fat) / fatty meat / (fig.) a gold mine / cash cow
salt pork / bacon / marinaded meat / cured 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
venison
sweet and sour meat (pork)
to stew meat / stewed meat
bacon
the person one loves the most; one's most treasured possession
plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
annoying person / troublemaker / pain in the neck
skin and flesh / superficial / physical (suffering) / bodily
lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight
Mongolian hot pot / instant-boiled mutton (dish)
lean meat
fleshy
pork belly / streaky pork
rice flour meat
dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish / lavish meal
rotting flesh; carrion
meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
raw meat
excess flesh; unwanted fat; flab; bulge
dog meat
feelings deeper than for one's own flesh and blood (idiom) / deep friendship
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
pork
twice-cooked pork
slow-braised pork belly (Tw)
butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another / internecine strife
crab 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)
(Tw) slow-braised pork belly
pork and scrambled eggs
pterygium (medicine)
carnivorous
(coll.) teen idol (male)
steamed pork
breast meat (brisket, chicken breast etc)
plant-based meat
minced meat
loin (of pork)
sweet and sour meat (pork)
(coll.) experienced and usually well-positioned middle-aged man
veal
to have intercourse / to fuck
vegetarian meat substitute
to put on weight
dried longan pulp
meat that is not refrigerated after the animal is slaughtered
sweet and sour pork
nasal polyp
lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / fig. to be at sb's mercy
to cut some meat / to cut off a piece of flesh / (fig.) (coll.) to sell at a loss
sweet and sour pork / also written 咕嚕肉|咕噜肉
Turkish döner kebab
(coll.) (usually used in the negative) (can't) hurt (to do sth) / (won't) hurt (to do sth)
as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship
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
hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
döner kebab
yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
variant of 息肉
ground meat; mincemeat
sweet and sour pork
red meat
lit. even a locust provides some nourishment (idiom) / fig. it's better than nothing
one's own flesh and blood
chop / rib meat
beef grilled on a hot iron plate
bacon / salt-cured meat


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