肌

Translingual

Han character

肌 (radical 130 肉+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓 (BHN), four-corner 7721₀, composition ⿰⺼几)

1. muscle tissue
2. meat on bones
3. texture

References

• KangXi: page 973, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29242
• Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2043, character 6
• Unihan data for U+808C

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		肌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jī, jì (ji¹, ji⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ, ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ki

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹
    • Yale: gēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (肌, reconstructed)
Character (肌), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 居夷切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kiɪ/	/ki/	/ki/	/ki/	/ki/	/ki/	/kjɪ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (肌, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
肌								jī								‹ kij ›								/*krə[j]/								flesh
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
肌					5756					几					脂					1					飢					/*kril/

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Japanese

Kanji

肌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: はだ (hada)

Noun

肌 (hiragana はだ, romaji hada)

1. the skin
2. the surface
3. a type

See also

• 皮膚, 皮フ (ひふ, hifu)

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Korean

Hanja

肌 (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

肌 (cơ)

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