肌

Stroke order

肌 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓 (BHN), four-corner 7721₀, composition ⿰⺼几)

• 𥬾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 973, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29242
• Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2043, character 6
• Unihan data for U+808C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kril) : semantic ⺼ + phonetic 几 (OC *krilʔ).

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k-rəj (“skin”), and cognate with Burmese ရေ (re, “skin, hide”).^[1]

肌

1. muscle; flesh

   腹肌  ―  fùjī  ―  abdominal muscle

   騷肌／骚肌 [Cantonese]  ―  sou¹ gei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to show one's muscles

2. (literary) skin

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: き (ki, 肌)
• Kan-on: き (ki, 肌)
• Kun: はだ (hada, 肌, Jōyō)、はだえ (hadae, 肌)^{←はだへ (fadafe, はだへ, historical)}

/pada/ → /ɸada/ → /hada/.

From Old Japanese, Proto-Japonic *panta. First attested in the Man'yōshū, completed sometime around 759 CE.^[1]

• (Tokyo) はだ [háꜜdà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠da̠]

肌(はだ) • (hada) 

1. human skin

   Synonyms: 皮膚 (hifu), はだえ (hadae)

   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 80:

     連膚 下波太音普

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   • 898–901, Shinsen Jikyō, volume 1, page 44:

     脕[...] 波太奈女良介之

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   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, pages 195-196:

     Fada. ハダ (肌) Fadaye (膚)に同じ. 肉の表皮, または, 人間の身体の表面. Fadauo yurusu. (肌を許す) 油断する. Cocorouo yurusu (心を許す)と言う方がまさる. Fadato fadauo auasuru. (肌と肌を合はする) 男女が交合する. 時には, Fadauo auasuru (肌を合はする)と言うことがある. これは,結び合って親しい間柄の人々について言われるけれども, あまり使われもしないし, 本来の正しい言い方でもない.

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2. surface of an object

   木(き)の肌(はだ) ― ki no hada ― tree bark

3. temperament, nature

   芸(げい)術(じゅつ)家(か)肌(はだ)

   geijutsuka-hada

   artistic temperament

• はだえ (hadae)

• Unknown (794) Yoshinori Kobayashi, editor, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (Kojisho Ongi Shūsei) (in Japanese), volume 1, Kyūko Shoin, published 1978, →ISBN.
• Shōjū with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (898–901) Shinsen Jikyō (Zōteiban) (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 15 December 1967, →ISBN.
• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.

肌 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

1. muscle tissue
2. meat on bones

肌: Hán Nôm readings: cơ

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