肌

肌 U+808C, 肌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-808C ← 肋 [U+808B] CJK Unified Ideographs 肍 → [U+808D]

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

simp. and trad.		肌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
肌	*kril
飢	*kril
机	*kril, *krilʔ
虮	*kril
几	*krilʔ
麂	*krilʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jī (ji¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹
    • Yale: gēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ky
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kiɪ/▼

Rime
Character	肌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居夷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ki/
Shao Rongfen	/kjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ki/
Li Rong	/ki/
Wang Li	/ki/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*krə[j]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kril/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	肌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī
Middle Chinese	‹ kij ›
Old Chinese	/*krə[j]/
English	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	肌
Reading #	1/1
No.	5756
Phonetic component	几
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	飢
Old Chinese	/*kril/

Definitions

肌

1. muscle; flesh
2. (literary) skin

Compounds

• 三角肌 (sānjiǎojī)
• 三頭臂肌／三头臂肌
• 不隨意肌／不随意肌
• 二頭股肌／二头股肌
• 二頭臂肌／二头臂肌
• 侵肌透骨
• 冰肌玉骨 (bīng jī yù gǔ)
• 分肌劈理
• 刻肌刻骨
• 前鋸肌／前锯肌
• 勁骨豐肌／劲骨丰肌
• 口輪肌／口轮肌
• 咀嚼肌 (jǔjuéjī)
• 大胸肌
• 小胸肌
• 平滑肌 (pínghuájī)
• 心肌 (xīnjī)
• 心肌梗塞 (xīnjī gěngsè)
• 括約肌／括约肌 (kuòyuējī)
• 撫臆誓肌／抚臆誓肌
• 擘肌分理
• 明肌雪
• 橫紋肌／横纹肌 (héngwénjī)
• 死肌

• 浹髓淪肌／浃髓沦肌
• 淪肌浹髓／沦肌浃髓
• 玉肌 (yùjī)
• 玉肌花貌
• 玉骨冰肌
• 皮膚肌炎／皮肤肌炎 (pífūjīyán)
• 眼球肌
• 睫狀肌／睫状肌
• 肋間肌／肋间肌
• 肋骨舉肌／肋骨举肌
• 肌無完膚／肌无完肤
• 肌理 (jīlǐ)
• 肌理豐盈／肌理丰盈
• 肌痺／肌痹
• 肌紅素／肌红素
• 肌纖維／肌纤维
• 肌肉 (jīròu)
• 肌肉注射 (jīròu zhùshè)
• 肌肉麻痺／肌肉麻痹
• 肌腱 (jījiàn)
• 肌膚／肌肤 (jīfū)
• 肌膚之愛／肌肤之爱
• 肌膚之親／肌肤之亲 (jīfūzhīqīn)
• 肌膜

• 肌覺／肌觉
• 肌酸 (jīsuān)
• 肌電圖／肌电图 (jīdiàntú)
• 肌革
• 肌骨 (jīgǔ)
• 肌體／肌体 (jītǐ)
• 背肌
• 胸肌 (xiōngjī)
• 腓腸肌／腓肠肌 (féichángjī)
• 腡肌／脶肌
• 腰肌 (yāojī)
• 腹肌 (fùjī)
• 豐肌／丰肌
• 里肌 (lǐjī)
• 銘肌鏤骨／铭肌镂骨
• 鏤骨銘肌／镂骨铭肌
• 闊背肌／阔背肌
• 隨意肌／随意肌
• 面黃肌瘦／面黄肌瘦
• 頸肌／颈肌
• 香肌玉體／香肌玉体
• 骨骼肌 (gǔgéjī)
• 髖骨肌／髋骨肌

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Japanese

Kanji

肌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki)
• Kun: はだ (hada, 肌, Jōyō)

Noun

肌 (hiragana はだ, rōmaji hada)

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

See also

• 皮 (ひ)膚 (ふ) (hifu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. muscle tissue
2. meat on bones

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Vietnamese

Han character

肌 (cơ)

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