Hanja Analyzer
脈

脈 — maek

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
줄기 맥
Romanization
maek
English
blood vessels, veins, arteries
Mandarin
mài
Japanese on'yomi
ミャク, バク
Japanese kun'yomi
すじ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#1,477 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Variant forms
脉
Radical
肉 (130, 6 residual)
Unicode
U+8108

How 脈 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 脈 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 肉, 𠂢.

Korean example words with 脈

  • 일맥一脈 Korean gloss: 같은 줄기
  • 접맥接脈 Korean gloss: 맥을 이음
  • 국맥國脈 Korean gloss: 나라의 명맥
  • 연맥緣脈 Korean gloss: 인연이 닿는 길
  • 군맥軍脈 Korean gloss: 군사의 기세나 힘
  • 근맥根脈 Korean gloss: 일이 생겨난 유래
  • 사맥四脈 Korean gloss: 사지(四肢)의 맥
  • 사맥事脈 Korean gloss: 일의 내력과 갈피
  • 동맥銅脈 Korean gloss: 구리를 함유한 광맥
  • 병맥病脈 Korean gloss: 병을 앓고 있을 때의 맥박
  • 반맥班脈 Korean gloss: 양반의 자손. 또는 그 혈통
  • 수맥水脈 Korean gloss: 땅속을 흐르는 지하수의 줄기

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 脈

  • 人脈じんみゃく personal connections
  • 山脈さんみゃく mountain range; mountain belt
  • 動脈どうみゃく artery; arterial road; major route
  • 脈みゃく pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.)
  • 文脈ぶんみゃく context (of a passage); line of thought; context (of a matter, event, etc.)
  • 静脈じょうみゃく vein
  • 動脈硬化どうみゃくこうか arteriosclerosis; hardening of the arteries; loss of flexibility (in thinking, systems, etc.)
  • 不整脈ふせいみゃく arrhythmia; abnormal heartbeat
  • 大動脈だいどうみゃく aorta; important traffic route
  • 金脈きんみゃく vein of gold; financial connections; patron
  • 脈拍みゃくはく pulse; pulse rate; pulsation
  • 乱脈らんみゃく disorder; confusion; chaos

Other hanja read “맥”

Other hanja with radical 肉

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