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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Dict coverage rank #1,493 U+7B4B
How 筋 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Bamboo-like ⺮ tendons in the chest 肋
How to remember it
tendon · Heisig RSH #2053
竹 bamboo + part of the body + 力 power
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 筋
| 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 |