腱

腱	U+8171, 腱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8171

← 腰
[U+8170]

CJK Unified Ideographs

腲 →
[U+8172]

Translingual

Han character

腱 (radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月弓大手 (BNKQ), four-corner 7524₀, composition ⿰月建)

References

KangXi: page 989, character 16

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29708

Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 20

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2092, character 10

Unihan data for U+8171

Chinese

simp. and trad.		腱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (建) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
犍	ɡran, kan
騝	ɡran, kan
鍵	ɡran, ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ
揵	ɡran, kanʔ
鞬	*kan
腱	kan, ɡans
湕	*kanʔ
建	*kans
旔	*kans
楗	*ɡanʔ
健	*ɡans

Originally 䇟. Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kan, *ɡans) : semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 建 (OC *kans).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiàn (jian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gin³, gin¹, gin⁶
Min Nan (POJ): kiān

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chien⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiàn
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gin³, gin¹, gin⁶
  - Yale: gin, gīn, gihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gin³, gin¹, gin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: gin³, gin¹, gin⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /kiːn³³/, /kiːn⁵⁵/, /kiːn²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiān
  - Tâi-lô: kiān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kien
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛn²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɛn²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiɛn³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛn³³/

Middle Chinese: /kɨɐn/, /ɡɨɐn^H/▼

Rime
Character	腱	腱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	元 (65)	元 (65)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居言切	渠建切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨɐn/	/ɡɨɐn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kiɐn/	/ɡiɐn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kiɐn/	/ɡiɐn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨan/	/gɨan^H/
Li Rong	/kiɐn/	/ɡiɐn^H/
Wang Li	/kĭɐn/	/ɡĭɐn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɨ̯ɐn/	/gɨ̯ɐn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiān	jiàn

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*kan/, /*ɡans/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	腱	腱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6216	6225
Phonetic component	建	建
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	𢳚	健
Old Chinese	/*kan/	/*ɡans/

Definitions

腱

tendons

Compounds

牛腱
肌腱 (jījiàn)

腱子 (jiànzi)

腱鞘 (jiànqiào)

Japanese

Kanji

腱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: けん (ken)
Kan-on: こん (kon)
On: きん (kin)

Noun

腱 (hiragana けん, rōmaji ken)

(anatomy) tendon

Korean

Hanja

腱 • (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune–Reischauer kŏn, Yale ken)

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腱