Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

986 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: meat

Kunyomi: しし

Onyomi: ニク

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にく

Meaning: meat

Strokes: 6

Examples

Examples with audio

屋(にくや)   butcher [n.]

食(にくしょく)   meat-eating, carnivorous

体(にくたい)   body, flesh

親(にくしん)   blood relative

眼(にくがん)   naked eye

筆(にくひつ)   one's own handwriting

(ひにく)   cynicism, sarcasm, irony, satire

(ぎゅうにく)   beef

(ぶたにく)   pork

(とりにく)   chicken meat

(きんにく)   muscle, sinew

挽き(ひきにく)   minced, ground meat

Onyomi Examples

ニク flesh, meat, flesh (of a fruit), pulp, the physical body (as opposed to the spirit), flesh, thickness, content, substance, flesh, ink pad

ニクシン blood relationship, blood relative

ショクニク meat (for consumption)

チュウニク medium build, meat of medium quality

Kunyomi Examples

しし flesh (esp. of an animal), meat

合い ししあい fleshiness, plumpness

鹿 かのしし deer meat, deer

ほしし dried meat, jerky