fáng
animal fat
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 肪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food) | ||
fatty acid | ||
animal fat | ||
fatty liver | ||
unsaturated fatty acid |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.8672% of movies
2670th most common character in movies
3005th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+80AA |
Shuowen | “肪,也。从肉,方聲。” |
Sources
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