KNEE  膝膝

BIG JOINT in the MIDDLE of the LEG.
Hypernym
  • JOINTBODY PART IN which BONES MEET AND CAN CHANGE POSITION IN-RELATION-TO MUTUAL:each other.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for the knee as a whole is xī 膝.

2. Bìn 臏 is the technical term for a knee-cap which is not so infrequently mentioned because it was sometimes removed by way of punishment.

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.36

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 160

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

Words

膝  xī OC: siɡ MC: sit 13 AttributionsWD

The current word for the knee as a whole is xī 膝.

    Syntactic words
  • nknee
  • nadVinstrumenton one's knees
臏  bìn OC: binʔ MC: bin 2 AttributionsWD

Bìn 臏 is the technical term for a knee-cap which is not so infrequently mentioned because it was sometimes removed by way of punishment.

    Syntactic words
  • nknee-cap
膕  guó OC: kʷrɯɯɡ MC: kɣɛk 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nhollow of the knee (XUN)
髕  bìn OC: binʔ MC: bin 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nknee-cap

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