U+8137 "脷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8137 "脷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "tongue" and is used in the context of anatomy, particularly referring to the tongue of an animal used as food, such as in Cantonese cuisine where it appears in dishes like braised ox tongue. Composed of the radical 月 (meat or flesh) and the phonetic component 利 (lì, meaning sharp or benefit), it is a simplified variant of the traditional character 脷, distinguished from the more common character 舌 (shé) for "tongue" in standard Mandarin, with its usage largely confined to certain regional dialects and culinary terminology.