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
- —筋組織muscular tissue
- —収縮筋constrictor (muscle); retractor
- —側頭筋temporal muscle; temporalis muscle
- —筋疾患myopathy
- —筋紡錘muscle spindle
- —内眼筋intraocular muscles
- —尾骨筋coccygeus muscle; ischiococcygeus
- —胸壁筋thoracic wall muscle; muscles of the thoracic wall
- —最長筋musculus longissimus
- —小胸筋pectoralis minor muscle
- —菱形筋rhomboid muscle
- —腸肋筋iliocostalis muscle
- —筋斗雲Flying Nimbus (magical cloud appearing in the Dragonball manga)
- —不随意筋involuntary muscles
- —心筋梗塞heart attack; myocardial infarction
- —筋肉労働physical or manual labor; physical or manual labour
- —筋肉注射intramuscular injection
- —筋萎縮症amyotrophy; muscular atrophy
- —筋無力症myasthenia
- —子宮筋腫fibroid; uterine myoma