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Several items on the menu of the restaurant I’m at have 肉入 next to them. I’ve
looked this up in a couple dictionaries without success, although I know the
general meanings of the separate characters (or thought I did). What does this
mean? Meat included?
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" 肉入" next to an item on a food menu?
「肉入{にくいり}」 （also written as 「肉入{にくい}り」） simply means " ** _(an amount of) meat
contained_** ".

The phrase is used to describe dishes that contain **_small_** amounts of
meat. It is not used with obvious meat dishes such as steaks, beef stew, etc.

You will keep encountering the phrase:

> 「[Food item] + 入{い}り」

at eateries and grocery stores.

FYI: In case you want to order the dish prepared **_without_** that particular
food item, the phrase to use is explained [in this
Q&A](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/18015/ordering-food-
difference-between-%e3%81%aa%e3%81%97-and-%e6%8a%9c%e3%81%8d/18018#18018).
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