肉

• 読み: にく
• ローマ字: niku
• 漢字の分解: 肉 (niku) — meat, flesh
• 発音: /ni.kɯ/

意味

Meat; flesh. A general term for all types of meat.

Covers all animal meat. Specific types include 牛肉 (beef), 豚肉 (pork), and 鶏肉 (chicken). In some regions, saying just 肉 defaults to a particular type — beef in Kansai, pork in Kantou. Historically, meat consumption was limited in Japan until the Meiji era.

例文

1. スーパーで肉を買いました。
2. お肉は好きですか。
3. 今日の料理は肉と野菜です。

使い方ガイド

場面: cooking, shopping, restaurants

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 肉 is a pictograph depicting a piece of meat or flesh, originally showing the form of sliced dried meat.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal