Wiktionary

肌

肌 U+808C, 肌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-808C
← 肋
[U+808B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 肍 →
[U+808D]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

肌 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓 (BHN), four-corner 77210, composition ⿰⺼几)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 973, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29242
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2043, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+808C

Chinese edit

trad. 肌
simp. # 肌

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肌 *kril
飢 *kril
机 *kril, *krilʔ
虮 *kril
几 *krilʔ
麂 *krilʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kril) : semantic ⺼ + phonetic 几 (OC *krilʔ).

Pronunciation edit

Rime
Character 肌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居夷切
Baxter kjij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ki/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ki/
Li
Rong 		/ki/
Wang
Li 		/ki/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ki/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 肌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*krə[j]/
English flesh

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 肌
Reading # 1/1
No. 5756
Phonetic
component 		几
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		飢
Old
Chinese 		/*kril/

Definitions edit

肌

  1. muscle; flesh
    腹肌  ―  fùjī  ―  abdominal muscle
    騷肌／骚肌 [Cantonese]  ―  sou1 gei1 [Jyutping]  ―  to show one's muscles
  2. (literary) skin

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

肌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
肌
はだ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
膚

/pada/ → /ɸada/ → /hada/.

From Old Japanese, Proto-Japonic *panta. First attested in the Man'yōshū, completed sometime around 759 CE.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

肌(はだ) • (hada) 

  1. human skin
    Synonyms: 皮膚 (hifu), はだえ (hadae)
    • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 80:
      連膚 下波太音普
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 898–901, Shinsen Jikyō, volume 1, page 44:
      脕[...] 波太奈女良介之
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho, pages 195-196:
      Fada. ハダ (肌) Fadaye (膚)に同じ. 肉の表皮, または, 人間の身体の表面. Fadauo yurusu. (肌を許す) 油断する. Cocorouo yurusu (心を許す)と言う方がまさる. Fadato fadauo auasuru. (肌と肌を合はする) 男女が交合する. 時には, Fadauo auasuru (肌を合はする)と言うことがある. これは,結び合って親しい間柄の人々について言われるけれども, あまり使われもしないし, 本来の正しい言い方でもない.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. surface of an object
    木(き)の肌(はだ) ― ki no hada ― tree bark
  3. temperament, nature
    芸(げい)術(じゅつ)家(か)肌(はだ)
    geijutsuka-hada
    artistic temperament
Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ “肌・膚”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000

Etymology 2 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 肌 – see the following entry.
【はだえ】
[noun] skin
Alternative spelling
膚
(This term, 肌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean edit

Hanja edit

肌 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

  1. muscle tissue
  2. meat on bones

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

肌: Hán Nôm readings: cơ

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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