膝

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺼ (“meat, body”) + phonetic 桼 – a body part, the knee.

Han character

膝 (radical 130 肉+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月木人水 (BDOE), four-corner 7423₂)

1. knee

Coordinate terms

• 肘

References

• KangXi: page 993, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29837
• Dae Jaweon: page 1445, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2106, character 11
• Unihan data for U+819D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

膝 (Yale sat1)

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Japanese

Kanji

膝

Readings

• On: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: ひざ (hiza)

Noun

膝 (hiragana ひざ, romaji hiza)

1. knee

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Korean

Hanja

膝 (hangeul 슬, revised seul, McCune-Reischauer sŭl, Yale sul)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

膝 (pinyin chún (chun2), xī (xi1), Wade-Giles ch'un², hsi¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

膝 (sit)

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Vietnamese

Han character

膝 (tất)