膝 — Chinese character
膝
xī
knee
- Pinyin
- xī
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 桼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flesh; meaning component ⺼; sound component 桼
- Japanese
- 膝 as a kanji
Common words with 膝
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 膝盖 (膝蓋) | xī gài | knee; (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration) |
| 卑躬屈膝 | bēi gōng qū xī | to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor |
| 膝下 | xī xià | at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents) |
| 护膝 (護膝) | hù xī | kneepad; knee brace |
| 双膝 (雙膝) | shuāng xī | both knees |
| 促膝 | cù xī | to sit knee to knee |
| 膝盖骨 (膝蓋骨) | xī gài gǔ | kneecap |
| 牛膝 | niú xī | Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine) |
| 促膝谈心 (促膝談心) | cù xī tán xīn | (idiom) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk |
| 盘膝 (盤膝) | pán xī | cross-legged |
| 绕膝 (繞膝) | rào xī | (children) run around parent's knees; fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents |
| 奴颜婢膝 (奴顏婢膝) | nú yán bì xī | servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor |
English words written with 膝
膝 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 5
- Zhuangzi Nourishment of the Soul
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Language
- Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
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.