noun
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)
古い文献には、旅の携帯食として脯を持っていったと記されている。
Old documents record that they took dried meat as portable food for journeys.
脯は今でいう干し肉のことだ。
脯 is what we now call dried meat.
Rare single-character kanji for dried meat; mostly found in classical texts.
Alternate kanji spelling using 乾 for drying.
Modern standard word for dried meat or jerky; 脯 is its archaic predecessor.
From 干し (hoshi, 'drying') + 肉 (shi, 'meat'), with rendaku voicing. The reading ほじし is a variant. The single-character form 脯 is a classical kanji for dried meat.