肘
肘 — ju
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 팔꿈치 주
- Romanization
- ju
- English
- the elbow; help a person shoulder a load
- Mandarin
- zhǒu
- Japanese on'yomi
- チュウ, チュ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ひじ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 肉 (130, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8098
Parts that make up 肘
How 肘 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 肘 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 肉, 寸.
Japanese words with 肘
- 肘ひじ elbow
- 肘鉄ひじてつ elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff
- 両肘りょうひじ both elbows
- 掣肘せいちゅう restraint; restriction; control
- 肘枕ひじまくら resting one's head on one's arm or elbow
- 肩肘かたひじ shoulders and elbows
- 肘木ひじき ancon; bracket; corbel piece
- 片肘かたひじ one elbow
- 肘頭ひじがしら olecranon
- 肘窩ちゅうか cubital fossa; bend of elbow
- 肘掛けひじかけ armrest (of a chair); elbow rest
- 肘鉄砲ひじでっぽう elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff
Other hanja read “주”
Other hanja with radical 肉
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