round meat; pork thigh meat
Specifically refers to meat from a pig's thigh, the cut used for making ham. A specialized butchery term.
This ham is made from high-quality pork thigh meat.
Standard kanji spelling for this term.
Variant kanji spelling; less common than 髀肉.
The kanji 髀 means 'thigh' or 'femur', and 肉 means 'meat'. The reading ひにく is the on'yomi of the characters. The variant 脾肉 uses 脾 ('spleen'), likely a phonetic or historical variant; the exact derivation is uncertain.