胏
meat
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Readings
On'yomi
- シ
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
胏 is a rare kanji whose core meaning is simply meat. It has no widely recognized extended senses beyond this basic idea.
Study
Etymology
胏 combines the flesh radical ⺼ with a phonetic component that is now obscure. The exact historical development of the right side is uncertain.
Meaning mnemonic
The left side ⺼ is the flesh radical, often used in body-part kanji. Picture a slab of meat hanging from a hook: the right side looks like a hook and lines of hanging meat.
Reading mnemonic
For シ, imagine a piece of meat sizzling in a pan: the hissing sound 'shhh' cues シ, and the meat is cooking.