jiàn

tendons

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

建 sound component

  Sound component

jiàn

  

build

Evolution

腱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiàn

tendons; tendon; sinew

Most common words with 腱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肌腱

sinew

tendon

腱子

sinew

腱鞘

epitendon

腱鞘炎

tenosynovitis (medicine)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5022nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8171

Shuowen

“,筋之本也。从筋,从夗省聲。腱,或从肉、建。”


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