• 焼肉やきにく — grilled meat
• 筋肉きんにく — muscle
• 肉親にくしん — blood relative
• 精肉せいにく — fresh meat
• 肉眼にくがん — naked eye
• 皮肉ひにく — irony; sarcasm
• 肉付にくづき — body build; fleshiness
• 果肉かにく — fruit flesh; pulp

“肉” originally depicted a piece of flesh or meat. Over time, it came to represent physical substance — food, muscles, and even close human relationships, as seen in words like 肉親.