肪 (fáng): animal fat
肪 (fáng) is a Chinese character meaning “animal fat.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺼ (semantic) and 方 (phonetic). It ranks #2750 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 肪 meat. Its radical form 肉 (meat) appears in many related characters such as 肉 (ròu, meat), 能 (néng, can), 背 (bèi, the back of a body or object).
Definitions
- animal fat
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 肪
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 脂肪酸 | zhī fáng suān | fatty acid |
| 多元不饱和脂肪酸 | duō yuán bù bǎo hé zhī fáng suān | polyunsaturated fatty acid |
| 反式脂肪 | fǎn shì zhī fáng | trans fat |
| 不饱和脂肪酸 | bù bǎo hé zhī fáng suān | unsaturated fatty acid |
| 反式脂肪酸 | fǎn shì zhī fáng suān | see 反式脂肪[fan3 shi4 zhi1 fang2] |
| 植物脂肪 | zhí wù zhī fáng | vegetable fat |
| 饱和脂肪酸 | bǎo hé zhī fáng suān | saturated fatty acid (SFA) |
| 饱和脂肪 | bǎo hé zhī fáng | saturated fat |
| 脂肪团 | zhī fáng tuán | cellulite |
| 脂肪肝 | zhī fáng gān | fatty liver |
肪 appears in 11 compound words: 0 as the first character, 36 as the last, and 64 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 肪 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
学习肪字需要反复练习，才能写得工整。
xué xí fáng zì xū yāo fǎn fù liàn xí , cái néng xiě dé gōng zhěng .
Mastering the character "胖" requires repeated practice to write it neatly.
...个男生做下肢运动小腹变大是怎么回事?是脂肪堆积还是腹肌未显现
. . . gè nán shēng zuò xià zhī yùn dòng xiǎo fù biàn dà shì zěn má huí shì ? shì zhī fáng duī jī hái shì fù jī wèi xiǎn xiàn
...Why does a guy's lower abdomen get bigger when he does lower-body exercises? Is it fat accumulation or just that his abs aren't showing yet?
健康网》反式脂肪0不代表安心 医:微量仍能累积
jiàn kāng wǎng fǎn shì zhī fáng 0 bù dài biǎo ān xīn yī : wēi liàng réng néng lěi jī
Health Network》Trans fat 0 does not mean peace of mind Doctor: trace amounts can still accumulate
吃饭时一个小改变,脂肪肝就有可能好转!
chī fàn shí yī gè xiǎo gǎi biàn , zhī fáng gān jiù yǒu kě néng hǎo zhuǎn !
A small change when eating may improve fatty liver!
脂肪肝不是胖人专利 三类高危族群与改善关键
zhī fáng gān bù shì pàng rén zhuān lì sān lèi gāo wēi zú qún yǔ gǎi shàn guān jiàn
Fatty liver is not the patent of fat people, three types of high-risk groups and the key to improvement
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. . . jīng jiāng nìng chūn jié zài chuán jiā xùn ! quán qiú shǒu kuǎn qīng liàng huà gān zāng zhī fáng dìng liàng jiǎn . .
... Jingjiangning Spring Festival good news again! The world's first lightweight liver fat quantitative test:
切除这块肉的脂肪。
Qiēchú zhè kuài ròu de zhīfáng.
Trim the fat off the meat.
Character Family
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