Kanji1 / 12
筋 kanji
muscle, sinew, tendon, fiber, plot, plan, descent
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
キン
Kun readings
すじ
Variant forms
觔Words with 筋
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —三頭筋triceps
- —骨格筋skeletal muscle
- —咀嚼筋muscle of mastication
- —随意筋voluntary muscle
- —横紋筋striated muscle
- —筋電図electromyogram; EMG
- —背筋力strength of one's back
- —表情筋mimetic muscles
- —上腕筋brachial muscle
- —補強筋reinforcement bar
- —筋肉質muscular; lean (of a company's operations, etc.)
- —心筋症cardiomyopathy
- —筋トレstrength training; resistance training; muscle-building
- —呼吸筋respiratory muscles
- —筋硬直muscle stiffness
- —神経筋neuromuscular
- —前頭筋frontalis muscle
- —眼輪筋orbicularis oculi muscle
- —口輪筋orbicularis oris muscle
- —大胸筋pectoralis major muscle