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動脈

動脈

See also: 动脉

Chinese

 
to use; to act; to move; to change
 mountain range; pulse
trad. (動脈) 動 脈
simp. (动脉) 动 脉
anagram 脈動／脉动

Noun

動脈

  1. (anatomy) artery

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
動 脈
どう
Grade: 3 		みゃく
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

動脈 ‎(hiragana どうみゃく, romaji dōmyaku)

  1. (anatomy) an artery

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Korean

Hanja in this term
動 脈

Noun

動脈 • ‎(dongmaek, McCune-Reischauer: tongmaek, Yale: tōngmayk) ‎(hangeul 동맥)

  1. Hanja form? of 동맥, “artery”.

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), from Japanese 動脈 (どうみゃく) ‎(dōmyaku, “artery”), semantically readapted from Chinese 動脈／动脉 (“one of the twenty-eight pulses in TCM”).

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