肌
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(bound form) flesh; muscle
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 肉 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 肌
- Common rank
- #1,002
- Unicode
- U+808C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
muscle · Heisig RSH #63
small table + part of the body
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 肌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重症肌无力 | myasthenia gravis (medicine) | |
| 三头肌 | triceps muscle; triceps brachii | |
| 肌动蛋白 | actin | |
| 二头肌 | biceps muscle | |
| 肌肉发达 | muscular | |
| 三角肌 | deltoid muscle (over the shoulder) | |
| 四头肌 | quadriceps muscle group; thigh muscles | |
| 肌球蛋白 | myosin (biochemistry) | |
| 肌电图 | electromyogram (EMG) | |
| 里肌肉 | loin (of pork) | |
| 股二头肌 | biceps femoris (anatomy) | |
| 不随意肌 | involuntary muscle | |
| 胸大肌 | pectoralis major muscle (across the top of the chest) | |
| 心肌 | myocardium | |
| 股四头肌 | quadriceps muscle group; thigh muscles | |
| 冰肌玉骨 | (idiom) (of a woman) having fair, flawless skin and a graceful, refined beauty | |
| 肌体 | the body; organism (usually human); (fig.) fabric (of society etc); cohesive structure (of… | |
| 肌理 | texture (of skin, surface etc) | |
| 里肌 | (Tw) tenderloin (usu. of pork) | |
| 杜兴氏肌肉营养不良症 | Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
Sound family
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