人肉

Chinese

		man; person; people	meat; flesh
simp. and trad. (人肉)		人	肉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rénròu

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ ㄖㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁴ juk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rénròu
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ ㄖㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rénròu
    • Wade–Giles: jên²-jou⁴
    • Yale: rén-ròu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renrow
    • Palladius: жэньжоу (žɛnʹžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵ ʐoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan⁴ juk⁶
    • Yale: yàhn yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁴ juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁴ yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²¹ jʊk̚²/

Noun

人肉

1. human flesh; human meat
2. (neologism) human flesh search engine
3. (Cantonese, attributive) human-

   人肉錄音機／人肉录音机 [Cantonese]  ―  jan⁴ juk⁶ luk⁶ jam¹ gei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  one who only repeats what had been said, like a tape recorder (literally, “human tape recorder”)

Verb

人肉

1. (Mainland China) Short for 人肉搜索 (rénròu sōusuǒ).

Derived terms

• 人肉市場 / 人肉市场 (rénròu shìchǎng)
• 人肉搜索 (rénròu sōusuǒ)
• 人肉搜索引擎 (rénròu sōusuǒ yǐnqíng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
人	肉
にん Grade: 1	にく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Kanji in this term
人	肉
じん Grade: 1	にく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

人(じん)肉(にく) or 人(にん)肉(にく) • (jinniku or ninniku) 

1. human meat

Usage notes

More commonly used in reference to cannibalism.