膝

ひざ · hiza · JLPT N3 · noun

knee

膝 — knee

🦵 hiza sounds like he's a: he's a kneeler, down on his knees

The left side 月 is the flesh radical, which marks body parts. The right side 桼 means lacquer tree and gives the on-reading shitsu, as in 膝蓋 (knee joint). The word hiza also means lap, the flat part a cat sits on.

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