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
- —筋萎縮amyotrophia; muscle atrophy; disuse atrophy
- —大腿筋femoral muscle; thigh muscle
- —大腰筋psoas major muscle
- —小腰筋psoas minor muscle
- —筋肉内intramuscular
- —翼状筋pterygoid muscle; alary muscle
- —前鋸筋serratus anterior muscle
- —梨状筋piriformis muscle
- —筋骨型muscular type (Kretschmer's typology); athletic type
- —筋電計electromyograph
- —筋繊維muscle fiber; muscle fibre
- —筋緊張muscle tone; tonus; myotonia
- —筋細胞muscle cell
- —筋形質sarcoplasm
- —筋収縮muscle contraction
- —筋肉美muscular beauty; beauty of a muscular body
- —心筋炎myocarditis
- —屈筋腱flexor tendon
- —棘下筋infraspinatus muscle
- —錐体筋pyramidalis (muscle)