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I think you failed to realize that 肉 just means "meat", in the most general sense possible. Under no circumstance is the character by itself ever directly denot
by xeonmc 3y ago
I think you failed to realize that 肉 just means "meat", in the most general sense possible. Under no circumstance is the character by itself ever directly denotes pork. So there's really nothing odd about saying "chicken meat" or "cow meat" when you want to specifically specify the flesh of the animal for consumption.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> I think you failed to realize that 肉 just means "meat", in the most general sense possible. Yes, I'm aware of that. (It isn't restricted to meat; it will also, much like the English word "flesh", refer to the flesh of fruit.) > Under no circumstance is the character by itself ever directly denotes pork. But this is just false. The character by itself directly denotes pork. It's not an unusual use. The constructions with 肉 are not being given as examples of using a different word for the animal and the food. They all use the same word. The example was the one at the end of the list, 水母 vs 海蜇.