Chinese Character Wiki

肌

jī

muscle tissue

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

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

几 sound component

几  Sound component

jī, jǐ

  

small table

Evolution

肌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
肌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

肌  

jī

muscle tissue; meat on bones; flesh; muscle

Most common words with 肌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肌肉

muscle

肌

flesh

肌肤

skin

心肌

myocardium

腹肌

abdominal muscle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*krə[j]

kij

jī

flesh


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 13.2148% of movies

1782nd most common character in movies

1935th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+808C

Shuowen

“肌，肉也。从肉，几聲。”


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