1. Home
  2. HSK 5
  3. Food and kitchen

烤肉

kǎoròu

grilled meat

A cook grilling meat
Memory picture

Characters in this word

烤 kǎo

Strokes
10
Radical
火 — fire, flame
Made of
火 fire, flame 考 to test, to investigate, to examine
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 烤

肉 ròu

Strokes
6
Radical
肉 — meat
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 今晚吃烤肉。 Jīnwǎn chī kǎoròu. We eat grilled meat tonight.
  • 烤肉很好吃。 Kǎoròu hěn hǎochī. Grilled meat is very tasty.
  • 我爱吃烤肉。 Wǒ ài chī kǎoròu. I love eating grilled meat.

Related words

All HSK 5 words →