# 肉 meat

(George Michael's Moustache) + 人 (person)
★★★★☆
6 strokes
BETA DUH

## Onyomi

NIKU |

## Mnemonic

| George has got two men's meat trapped in his 'stache. He particularly NEEds COOlio's meat. Of course it might just be easier to think of it as 2 pork chops, but I prefer the more lurid imagery.

## Kunyomi

にく | meat, muscle LAZY ★★★★☆

## Jukugo

筋肉(きんにく) | muscle ★★★☆☆ 筋 (muscle) + 肉 (meat) = 筋肉 (muscle)
皮肉(ひにく) | sarcasm/irony ★★★☆☆ SARC 皮 (skin) + 肉 (meat) = 皮肉 (sarcasm/irony) sarcasm OR irony. Japanese DO have a sense of sarcasm,(for example, calling the traditional chicken-and-scrambled-eggs dish "parents and child") but it is so different than the Western say-the-opposite-of-what-you-mean style that Japanese don't have a word for western sarc. So they seem to have taken their word for Irony and pressed it into service for sarcasm as well.
豚肉(ぶたにく) | pork ★★★☆☆ KUNKUN 豚 (pig) + 肉 (meat) = 豚肉 (pork )
焼肉(やきにく) | roast meat, usually beef. ★★☆☆☆ NOKURI 焼 (roast / grill) + 肉 (meat) = 焼肉 (roast meat, usually beef.)
牛肉(ぎゅうにく) | beef ★★☆☆☆ 牛 (cow) + 肉 (meat) = 牛肉 (beef)

## Used In

- 腐