筋

See also: 觔 and 䏪

Translingual

Han character

筋 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月大尸 (HBKS), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱⺮肋)

1. muscle, muscles
2. tendon, tendons

References

• KangXi: page 882, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25994
• Dae Jaweon: page 1311, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2968, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7B4B

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		筋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn (jin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kin / kun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: chin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan¹
    • Yale: gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kin / kun
    • Tâi-lô: kin / kun
    • IPA (Taipei): /kin⁴⁴/, /kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kin³⁴/, /kun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (筋, reconstructed)
Character (筋), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 欣 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 舉欣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨn/	/ki̯ən/	/kiən/	/kɨn/	/kɨn/	/kĭən/	/kiən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (筋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
筋								jīn								‹ kjɨn ›								/*C.[k]ə[n]/								sinew
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
筋					6727					筋					文					1					斤					/*kɯn/					俗作䈥

Compounds

• 麵筋
• 面筋

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Kanji

筋

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: きん (kin)
• Kun: すじ (suji)

Compounds

• 筋肉 (きんにく, kin'niku)

See also

• 腱 (けん, ken)

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Korean

Hanja

筋 (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筋 (cân, gân)

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