jīn
muscles
Bamboo-like ⺮ tendons in the chest 肋
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jīn
muscles; tendons; muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[k]ə[n] | kj+n | jīn | sinew |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.4025% of movies
2135th most common character in movies
2252nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7B4B |
Shuowen | “筋，肉之力也。从力，从肉，从竹。竹，物之多筋者。” |
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