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筋

筋

See also: 觔 and 䏪

Translingual

Han character

筋 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月大尸 (HBKS), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱⺮肋)

  1. muscle, muscles
  2. tendon, tendons

References

  • KangXi: page 882, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25994
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1311, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2968, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7B4B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 筋

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 筋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 欣 (57)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舉欣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨn/
Li
Rong		 /kiən/
Wang
Li		 /kĭən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jīn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 筋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jīn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjɨn ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[k]ə[n]/
English sinew

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 筋
Reading # 1/1
No. 6727
Phonetic
component		 筋
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 斤
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯn/
Notes 俗作䈥

Definitions

筋

  1. tendon
    我好鍾意食牛筋丸。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    我好钟意食牛筋丸。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Ngo5 hou2 zung1 ji3 sik6 ngau4gan1 jyun2. [Jyutping]
    I like to eat beef tendon meatballs.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

筋

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
筋
すじ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Noun

筋 ‎(hiragana すじ, romaji suji)

  1. muscle
  2. tendon

See also

Counter

筋 ‎(hiragana すじ, romaji -suji)

  1. Counter for long, thin things.
    一筋 (ひとすじ)の光 (ひかり)
    hitosuji no hikari
    a single ray of light

Korean

Hanja

筋 • ‎(geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筋 (cân, gân)

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