膝

膝 U+819D, 膝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-819D
← 膜
[U+819C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 膞 →
[U+819E]

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
variant forms 䣛

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
Note:
  • Quanzhou and Taiwan:
    • sit - literary;
    • chhek/chhiak - vernacular.
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. (anatomy) knee
    膝蓋 / 膝盖  ―  xīgài  ―  knee

Compounds
  • 交臂屈膝
  • 低頭屈膝／低头屈膝
  • 低顏下膝／低颜下膝
  • 促膝
  • 促膝談心／促膝谈心
  • 促膝長談／促膝长谈
  • 兜膝
  • 兩手過膝／两手过膝
  • 加膝墜淵／加膝坠渊
  • 卑躬屈膝 (bēigōngqūxī)
  • 垂手過膝／垂手过膝
  • 奴顏婢膝／奴颜婢膝 (núyánbìxī)
  • 婢膝奴顏／婢膝奴颜
  • 容膝
  • 對膝／对膝
  • 屈膝 (qūxī)
  • 承歡膝下／承欢膝下
  • 拊膝
  • 拍膝嗟歎／拍膝嗟叹
  • 接膝
  • 敝膝
  • 盤膝／盘膝
  • 盤膝而坐／盘膝而坐
  • 磕膝蓋／磕膝盖
  • 竹夾膝／竹夹膝
  • 胳膝
  • 膝下 (xīxià)
  • 膝下猶虛／膝下犹虚

Japanese

Kanji
膝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds
Kanji in this term
膝
ひざ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pinsa.

Pronunciation

Noun

膝 (hiragana ひざ, rōmaji hiza)

  1. knee
    膝 (ひざ)を抱 (かか)える
    hiza o kakaeru
    to hug one's knees

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

膝 • (seul) (hangeul 슬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

膝 (tất)

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