膝

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		膝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sat¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sat¹
    • Yale: sāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐt̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /siɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	膝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息七切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sit̚/
Li Rong	/siĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-tsik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*siɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	膝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ sit ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tsik/
English	knee
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	膝
Reading #	1/1
No.	9928
Phonetic component	桼
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	悉
Old Chinese	/*siɡ/
Notes	同厀

Definitions

膝

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Japanese

Kanji

膝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: しち (shichi)
• Kan’on: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: ひざ (hiza)

Compounds

Compounds

膝蓋 (しつがい) ‎(shitsugai): patella, kneecap

Kanji in this term
膝
ひざ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひざ [hìzá] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [çiza̠]

• Audio

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Noun

膝 ‎(hiragana ひざ, romaji hiza)

1. knee

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

膝 (tất)

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