Definitions
dog meat
Etymology
Meat (⺼) of a dog (犬).
About
The character 肰 is an ideogrammatic compound, formed by placing the meat radical 肉 on the left alongside the dog radical 犬 on the right. This structure was created to represent the literal concept of dog meat, with the components specifying both the animal source and its flesh. Over time, 肰 became the etymological root for the more common character 然, which originally depicted roasting dog meat before evolving into an abstract grammatical particle, leaving 肰 as an obscure term found mainly in classical dictionaries and etymological studies.
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