膝

Translingual

Han character

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

Coordinate terms

• 肘

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		膝
simp. #		膝
alternative forms		䣛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
漆	*sʰiɡ
桼	*sʰiɡ
膝	*siɡ
厀	*siɡ

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 膝

1. (anatomy) knee

   膝蓋／膝盖  ―  xīgài  ―  knee

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

膝

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: ひざ (hiza, 膝, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

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

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

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pinsa.

Noun

膝(ひざ) • (hiza) 

1. knee

   膝(ひざ)を抱(かか)える

   hiza o kakaeru

   to hug one's knees

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Korean

Hanja

膝 • (seul) (hangeul 슬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 膝 (tất)

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