Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
meat
Kun:
しし
On:
ニク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
986 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肉 【ニク】 flesh, meat, flesh (of a fruit), pulp, the physical body (as opposed to the spirit), flesh, thickness, content, substance, flesh, ink pad
  • 肉親 【ニクシン】 blood relationship, blood relative
  • 食肉 【ショクニク】 meat (for consumption)
  • 中肉 【チュウニク】 medium build, meat of medium quality

Kun reading compounds

  • 肉 【しし】 flesh (esp. of an animal), meat
  • 肉合い 【ししあい】 fleshiness, plumpness
  • 鹿 【かのしし】 venison, deer
  • 脯 【ほしし】 dried meat, jerky

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
rou4
Korean:
yug, yu

Spanish

  • carne

Portuguese

  • carne

French

  • chair
  • viande
297 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
365 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
779 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3724 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
533 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
241 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
223 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
223 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
561 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1010 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3966 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2042 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2756 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1031 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
29236 Morohashi
3200 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4753 New Nelson (John Haig)
1022 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1098 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
134 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1653 2001 Kanji
2a4.20 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
3-2-4 SKIP code
4022.7 Four corner code
1-38-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8089 Unicode hex code

17 strokes
Radical:
wine, alcohol
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 醤油 【ショウユ】 soy sauce, shoyu
  • 醤油炒め 【ショウユイタメ】 fried dish seasoned with soy sauce
  • 肉醤 【シシビシオ】 salted and fermented meat or fish
  • 魚醤 【ギョショウ】 fish sauce (made from fermented salted fish)

Kun reading compounds

  • 醤 【ひしお】 paste similar to miso made from koji mold and salt water, watery mash left over from making soy sauce

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiang4
Korean:
jang

Spanish

  • tipo de miso

Portuguese

French

4801 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3537 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
40011X Morohashi
6186 New Nelson (John Haig)
2746 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2774 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7e11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-10-7 SKIP code
2760.1 Four corner code
1-30-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91a4 Unicode hex code