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肴

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meat dishes; mixed viands

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
8
Radical
肉 +4
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
肴
Common rank
#3,882
Unicode
U+80B4

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Formation & memory

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How 肴 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

⺼ meaning “meat” + 乂 sound ( yì )

Components 乂 有

Words with 肴

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
酒肴 jiǔ yáo wine and meat; food and drink
菜肴 cài yáo vegetable and meat dishes; dish
佳肴 jiā yáo fine food; delicacies; delicious food

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 乂 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
乂 sound part yì to govern; to control; to nurture
义 yì right conduct, propriety; justice
艾 ài mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris; used in transliterations
刈 yì to cut off, to reap, to mow; sickle