肱 — Chinese character
肱
gōng
forearm
- Pinyin
- gōng
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 厷
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flesh; meaning component ⺼; sound component 厷
- Japanese
- 肱 as a kanji
Common words with 肱
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肱骨 | gōng gǔ | humerus |
| 股肱 | gǔ gōng | trusted aide |
| 三折肱 | sān zhé gōng | (lit.) break one's arm three times (to become a good doctor); (fig.) extensive experience (esp. gained through repeated hardship) |
| 曲肱而枕 | qū gōng ér zhěn | lit. to use one's bent arm as a pillow (idiom); fig. content with simple things |
| 肱三头肌 (肱三頭肌) | gōng sān tóu jī | triceps brachii (back of the upper arm) |
| 肱二头肌 (肱二頭肌) | gōng èr tóu jī | bicipital muscle; biceps |
English words written with 肱
肱 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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