Archaic term for dried meat; in modern Japanese, 干し肉 (ほしにく) is the common word.
See also: 干し肉 (ほしにく)
Old documents record that they took dried meat as portable food for journeys.
脯 is what we now call dried meat.
Modern standard word for dried meat or jerky; 脯 is its archaic predecessor.
Standard kanji spelling for dried meat; 干し肉 is the modern equivalent.
Rare single-character kanji for dried meat; mostly found in classical texts.
Alternate kanji spelling using 乾 for drying.
Formed from 干し, the continuative form of 干す, “to dry,” and the old word し, “meat.” The variant ほじし shows voicing at the compound boundary.