肉ròu

). 肉 (ròu, "meat") appears unchanged from its traditional form — a pictograph that in oracle bone and bronze script depicted a slice of flesh with the characteristic diagonal ribs, capturing the look of a cut of meat. As a radical it forms a whole family of characters including 肥 (fat), 肿 (swelling) and 脱 (to strip), where the original meat shape still lingers in the written form.