膝頭

Chinese
knee head; (noun suffix)
trad. (膝頭) 膝 頭
simp. (膝头) 膝 头

Pronunciation

Noun

膝頭

  1. (literary or Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Hainan) knee

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 膝蓋 (“knee”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 膝
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 膝蓋
Mandarin Beijing 波棱蓋兒, 胳棱瓣兒, 磕膝蓋兒
Taiwan 膝蓋
Tianjin 脖拉蓋兒, 脖力蓋兒
Harbin 簸棱蓋兒, 簸勒蓋兒
Shenyang 波拉蓋兒
Hailar 波浪蓋兒
Ulan Hot 波浪蓋兒
Tongliao 波浪蓋兒
Chifeng 簸籮蓋
Bayanhot 波羅蓋
Jinan 波勒蓋, 波拉蓋, 胳拉瓣兒
Muping 波棱蓋
Luoyang 不老蓋兒, 圪老拜兒
Jiedian 圪膝蓋, 膝子蓋
Xi'an 磕膝蓋
Zhengzhou 不牢蓋兒
Xining 波膝蓋
Xuzhou 胳婁拜子, 膝蓋
Yinchuan 波里蓋
Lanzhou 勃膝蓋子
Ürümqi 波膝蓋兒
Wuhan 磕膝頭, 磕膝, 拱子
Chengdu 磕膝頭兒
Guiyang 磕膝頭
Guilin 膝蓋
Liuzhou 波羅蓋, 腳膝蓋
Kunming 磕膝頭
Yangzhou 胳記頭子, 波羅蓋子 dated
Nanjing 磕膝頭
Hefei 胳腦頭子, 胳腦頭, 磕膝頭
Cantonese Guangzhou 膝頭哥, 膝頭
Hong Kong 膝頭哥, 膝頭
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 膝頭哥
Foshan 膝頭哥
Shunde 膝頭哥
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 膝頭哥
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka) 膝頭
Taishan 膝頭哥, 膝頭
Kaiping (Chikan) 膝頭哥
Dongguan 波羅蓋, 膝蓋, 膝頭
Shaoguan 膝頭哥
Yunfu 膝頭牯
Yangjiang 膝頭
Xinyi 膝頭牯
Lianjiang 膝頭
Nanning 膝頭哥, 膝頭
Wuzhou 膝頭
Yulin 膝頭
Hepu 膝蓋
Kuala Lumpur 膝頭哥
Gan Nanchang 膝頭, 膝頭蓋子, 磕膝, 磕膝頭子
Lichuan 膝頭公
Pingxiang 膝頭牯
Hakka Meixian 膝頭
Xingning 膝頭
Huidong 膝頭
Qujiang 膝頭牯
Xiaosanjiang 腳頭牯
Luchuan 膝頭, 膝蓋
Changting 膝頭
Pingyu 膝頭
Wuping 膝頭
Ninghua 膝頭拐
Yudu 膝頭
Ruijin 膝頭蓋子
Shicheng 膝頭
Shangyou 膝頭腦
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 膝頭, 腳膝頭
Liudui (S. Sixian) 膝頭, 腳膝頭
Hsinchu (Hailu) 膝頭, 腳膝頭
Dongshi (Dabu) 膝頭, 腳膝頭
Hsinchu (Raoping) 膝頭, 腳膝頭
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 膝頭, 腳膝頭
Hong Kong 膝頭
Sabah 膝頭
Senai 膝頭
Singkawang 膝頭
Huizhou Jixi 腳膝頭
Shexian 腳膝頭
Tunxi 腳膝頭
Jin Taiyuan 圪膝蓋, 圪地跪
Pingyao 胳膝跪子
Xinzhou 圪替跪, 圪膝蓋, 圪膝
Baochang 圪膝蓋
Jining 圪膝蓋
Hohhot 圪膝蓋
Baotou 圪膝蓋
Dongsheng 圪膝蓋
Linhe 波羅蓋, 波羅蓋子
Min Bei Jian'ou 跤腹頭
Min Dong Fuzhou 跤腹頭
Fuqing 跤肚頭, 跤腹頭
Matsu 跤腹頭
Min Nan Xiamen 跤頭趺
Quanzhou 跤頭趺
Zhangzhou 跤頭趺, 跤尪仔
Taipei 跤頭趺, 跤頭腕
Kaohsiung 跤頭趺, 跤頭腕
Tainan 跤頭趺, 跤頭腕
Taichung 跤頭趺
Wuqi 跤頭趺
Hsinchu 跤頭趺
Taitung 跤甕
Lukang 跤腕, 跤頭趺, 跤趺
Sanxia 跤頭腕
Yilan 跤頭趺, 跤頭翁仔
Kinmen 跤頭趺
Magong 跤頭趺, 跤頭腕
Penang 跤頭趺
Pingnan 膝頭
Chaozhou 跤頭趺
Shantou 跤頭, 跤頭趺
Haifeng 跤頭趺
Johor Bahru 跤頭趺
Haikou 跤趺臍, 跤趺
Leizhou 跤頭趺, 跤趺
Puxian Min Putian 跤肚頭
Xianyou 跤肚頭
Pinghua Nanning 膝頭, 膝頭蓋, 膝頭尖
Guilin 屈頭眼
Wu Shanghai 腳饅頭
Suzhou 腳饅頭, 膝饅頭
Hangzhou 腳窠頭, 膝窠頭
Wenzhou 腳胐頭
Chongming 膝饅頭
Danyang 膝盤頭, 膝頭盤
Jinhua 腳膝䯊
Ningbo 腳窠頭
Xiang Changsha 膝頭骨, 磕膝骨
Shuangfeng 膝頭骨
Xiangtan 膝頭股
Loudi 膝頭牯
Quanzhou 磕膝頭

Japanese
Kanji in this term
膝 頭
ひざ
Grade: S		 かしら > がしら
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 膝 (hiza, “knee”) +‎ 頭 (kashira, “head; top, tip”).[1][2] The kashira changes to gashira as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

膝頭 (hiragana ひざがしら, rōmaji hizagashira)

  1. (anatomy) The front of the knee.
  2. (anatomy) The kneecap, the patella.

Usage notes

This term is more general in meaning than 膝の皿 (hiza no sara) / 膝皿 (hiza sara) or 膝蓋骨 (shitsugaikotsu).

Synonyms

Idioms
Idioms
  • 膝 (ひざ)頭 (がしら)で江 (え)戸 (ど)へ行 (い)く (hizagashira de Edo e iku): "to go to Edo on one's knees" → To rush into something without taking time to prepare, and consequently work harder and get less done in the process.
  • 膝 (ひざ)頭 (がしら)で箱 (はこ)根 (ね)は越 (こ)されぬ (hizagashira de Hakone wa kosarenu): "one cannot get through Hakone (Pass) on one's knees" → To rush into something without taking time to prepare, and consequently work harder and get less done in the process.

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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