筋 (jīn)
muscle; tendon; vein
How 筋 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Traditional
- 筋
- Simplified
- 筋 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺮ bamboo
- 月 moon
- 力 power/force
Common words using 筋
- 抽筋 chōujīn
- cramp; charley horse; to pull a tendon
- 傷筋動骨 shāngjīndònggǔ
- to suffer serious injury (idiom)
- 傷腦筋 shāngnǎojīn
- knotty; troublesome; bothersome
- 動腦筋 dòngnǎojīn
- to use one's brains; to think
- 橡皮筋 xiàngpíjīn
- rubber band
- 皮筋 píjīn
- rubber band
- 筋疲力盡 jīnpílìjìn
- body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired; spent
- 筋骨 jīngǔ
- muscles and bones; physique; strength
- 腦筋 nǎojīn
- brains; mind; head
- 鋼筋 gāngjīn
- steel reinforcing bar
- 麵筋 miànjīn
- gluten
- 一根筋 yīgēnjīn
- stubborn; inflexible; one-track minded
筋 in a sentence
動動腦筋，這個問題其實不難解決。
Dòngdòng nǎojīn, zhège wèntí qíshí bùnán jiějué.
“Use your brain; this problem is actually not hard to solve.”
How common is 筋?
筋 is the 2,247th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.9% of all running text.
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