# 肉 — Meat

Frequency rank 457 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 備 (Provide), less common than 済 (Come To An End).

- On’yomi: にく
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 肉 Meat (Kangxi 130)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

The character 肉 (meat) looks like a cut of meat — the interior lines show the marbling of fat within a slab of raw meat, ready for the grill.

In words:

- 肉 にく — meat
- とり肉 とりにく — chicken meat
- 牛肉 ぎゅうにく — beef

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