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膝

膝

Translingual

Han character

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

Coordinate terms

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 膝

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, OC *siɡ) : semantic ⺼ ‎(“meat, body”) + phonetic 桼 ‎(OC *sʰiɡ) – a body part, the knee.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 膝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息七切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sit̚/
Li
Rong		 /siĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /sĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 膝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tsik/
English knee

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 膝
Reading # 1/1
No. 9928
Phonetic
component		 桼
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 悉
Old
Chinese		 /*siɡ/
Notes 同厀

Definitions

膝

  1. knee
    膝蓋／膝盖 (xīgài, “knee”)

Japanese

Kanji

膝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

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

Pronunciation

Noun

膝 ‎(hiragana ひざ, romaji hiza)

  1. knee

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

膝 • ‎(seul) (hangeul 슬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

膝 (tất)

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