脂

あぶら · abura · JLPT N3 · noun

fat

🥓🧈 脂 = 月 flesh + 旨 tasty: the tasty part of meat is the fat

The left side 月 is the flesh radical, used for body parts, and 旨 means delicious. Sound hook: abura is close to a blubber, and blubber is fat. Note that 油 is also read abura, but it means liquid oil. 脂 is solid animal fat.

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