脈

みゃく · myaku · JLPT N1 · noun

pulsation

💓 脈 = myaku, sounds like 'my cue': the heartbeat is your body's cue you can feel at your wrist

脈 is the vessel 'channel' radical with a body sense: blood vessels carry the beat. Feel your wrist: that throb is the myaku, the pulse.

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