肋
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(bound form) rib; Taiwan pr. [le4]
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 肉 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 肋
- Common rank
- #2,659
- Unicode
- U+808B
Formation & memory
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Words with 肋
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 加里肋亚海 | Sea of Galilee | |
| 加利肋亚 | Galilee (in biblical Palestine) | |
| 加里肋亚 | Galilee | |
| 安德肋 | Andrew (Catholic transliteration) | |
| 两肋插刀 | (lit.) to take knives in both sides (idiom); (fig.) to go to any lengths for a friend; to … | |
| 季肋区 | (anatomy) hypochondriac region | |
| 肋间肌 | intercostal muscle | |
| 肋眼 | rib-eye steak | |
| 凯撒肋雅 | Caesarea (town in Israel, between Tel Aviv and Haifa) | |
| 肋木 | (gymnastics) wall bars; stall bars | |
| 肋骨 | rib; CL:根[gen1] | |
| 鸡肋 | chicken rib; (fig.) sth of little value yet hard to discard | |
| 软肋 | (anatomy) costal cartilage; (fig.) weak spot; weak link; vulnerability | |
| 沅江九肋 | rare talent; lit. legendary nine-ribbed turtle of Yuan river | |
| 季肋 | (anatomy) the floating ribs | |
| 纳匝肋 | Nazareth |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 力 — compare how they read.