kěn
meat attached to bone
Original version of 肯. Depicts meat (⺼) attached to a bone (冎).
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 肎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to be certain | ||
to agree | ||
KFC | ||
Kennedy (name) | ||
Lincoln (name) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 86.9294% of movies
325th most common character in movies
860th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+808E |
Shuowen | “肎,骨間肉肎肎箸也。从肉,从冎省。” |
Sources
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