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肉ròumeat

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肉 (ròu) means "meat" or "flesh." It names the meat people cook and eat, as in 吃肉 (eat meat) and 买肉 (buy meat), and it can also mean the flesh of a body. This entry focuses on the everyday food sense used when talking about meals and shopping.

What does 肉 mean?

  1. 1.

    meatnoun

  2. 2.

    fleshnoun

What does the character 肉 mean?

  • 肉meat

How do you use 肉?

肉 often follows verbs like 吃 and 买, and it can join other words to name a dish, as in 肉菜.

Patterns

  • 吃 + 肉

    你吃肉吗？

    Nǐ chī ròu ma?

    Do you eat meat?

What are some examples of 肉 in a sentence?

  1. HSK 1

    我不吃肉。

    Wǒ bù chī ròu.

    I don't eat meat.

  2. HSK 1

    这个菜里有很多肉。

    Zhège cài li yǒu hěn duō ròu.

    There is a lot of meat in this dish.

  3. HSK 1

    妈妈去买肉了。

    Māma qù mǎi ròu le.

    Mom has gone to buy meat.

How is 肉 used in a conversation?

  1. Speaker A:

    你想吃什么？

    Nǐ xiǎng chī shénme?

    What do you want to eat?

  2. Speaker B:

    我想吃肉，你呢？

    Wǒ xiǎng chī ròu, nǐ ne?

    I want to eat meat. How about you?

  3. Speaker A:

    我不吃肉，我吃米饭。

    Wǒ bù chī ròu, wǒ chī mǐfàn.

    I don't eat meat; I'll have rice.

  4. Speaker B:

    那我们要一道肉菜，再要两碗米饭。

    Nà wǒmen yào yí dào ròu cài, zài yào liǎng wǎn mǐfàn.

    Then let's order one meat dish and two bowls of rice.

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English glosses on this page are adapted from CC-CEDICT, published by MDBG (snapshot 2026-10-23), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Glosses were edited for learners.