筋

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muscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin; sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Bamboo-like ⺮ tendons in the chest 肋

Components ⺮肋

tendon · Heisig RSH #2053

竹 bamboo + part of the body + 力 power

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
中筋面粉	zhōng jīn miàn fěn	all-purpose flour; flour for making dumplings and noodles
无筋面粉	wú jīn miàn fěn	wheat starch
马利筋	mǎ lì jīn	tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)
高筋面粉	gāo jīn miàn fěn	bread flour; hard flour
伤筋动骨	shāng jīn dòng gǔ	to suffer serious injury (idiom)
一根筋	yī gēn jīn	stubborn; inflexible; one-track minded
动脑筋	dòng nǎo jīn	to use one's brains; to think
低筋面粉	dī jīn miàn fěn	low-gluten flour; cake flour; pastry flour; soft flour
伤筋断骨	shāng jīn duàn gǔ	to suffer serious injury (idiom)
牛筋草	niú jīn cǎo	wire grass (Eleusine indica)
后翻筋斗	hòu fān jīn dǒu	backward somersault
脸红筋暴	liǎn hóng jīn bào	red and tense with anger (idiom)
筋斗云	jīn dǒu yún	Sun Wukong's magical cloud
拉筋	lā jīn	stretching (exercise)
手筋	shǒu jīn	flexor tendon (coll.); tesuji (a skillful move in the game of Go) (orthographic borrowing …
面筋	miàn jīn	gluten
筋道	jīn dao	(of noodles etc) springy; chewy
伤脑筋	shāng nǎo jīn	to be a real headache; to find sth a real headache; to beat one's brains
横翻筋斗	héng fān jīn dǒu	to turn cartwheels
横筋斗	héng jīn dǒu	cartwheel