扣肉

Chinese

		10 percent; button; detain	meat; flesh
simp. and trad. (扣肉)		扣	肉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kòuròu

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄡˋ ㄖㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau³ juk⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): kêu⁴ ngiug⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kòuròu
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄡˋ ㄖㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kòuròu
    • Wade–Giles: kʻou⁴-jou⁴
    • Yale: kòu-ròu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kowrow
    • Palladius: коужоу (koužou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kau³ juk⁶
    • Yale: kau yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau³ juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: keo³ yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯³³ jʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: kêu⁴ ngiug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰeu⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ŋiʊk̚¹/

Noun

扣肉

1. a kind of braised meat (especially pork belly)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 扣肉 (“braised pork belly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		扣肉
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	焢肉
	Singapore	扣肉
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	扣肉
Cantonese	Hong Kong	扣肉
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	扣肉
	Singapore (Guangfu)	扣肉
Southern Min	Taipei	炕肉 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	炕肉
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Derived terms

• 梅乾扣肉 / 梅干扣肉
• 梅菜扣肉 (méicài kòuròu)
• 芋頭扣肉 / 芋头扣肉 (yùtou kòuròu)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (扣肉):

• → Vietnamese: khâu nhục (扣肉)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
扣	肉

Noun

扣肉

1. chữ Hán form of khâu nhục (“braised pork belly”).