# 腱

| 腱 | U+8171, &#33137; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8171 |
| ← 腰 [U+8170] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 腲 → [U+8172] |

## Translingual
### Han character

腱 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月弓大手 (BNKQ), four-corner 7524$_0$, composition ⿰月建)

#### Derived characters

* 𦽇

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 989, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29708
* Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2092, character 10
* Unihan data for U+8171

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 犍 | *ɡran, *kan |
| 騝 | *ɡran, *kan |
| 鍵 | *ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ |
| 揵 | *ɡran, *kanʔ |
| 鞬 | *kan |
| 腱 | *kan, *ɡans |
| 湕 | *kanʔ |
| 建 | *kans |
| 旔 | *kans |
| 楗 | *ɡanʔ |
| 健 | *ɡans |
Originally 䇟. Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kan, *ɡans) : semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 建 (OC *kans).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jiàn (jian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gin$^3$ / gin$^1$ / gin$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiān
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jiàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jiàn
*** Wade–Giles: chien$^4$
*** Yale: jyàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
*** Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gin$^3$ / gin$^1$ / gin$^6$
*** Yale: gin / gīn / gihn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gin$^3$ / gin$^1$ / gin$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gin$^3$ / gin$^1$ / gin$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /kiːn³³/, /kiːn⁵⁵/, /kiːn²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiān
*** Tâi-lô: kiān
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kien
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛn²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛn⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɛn²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kiɛn³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛn³³/
* Middle Chinese: kjon, gjonH
Rime :
| Character | 腱 | 腱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (65) | 元 (65) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 居言切 | 渠建切 |
| Baxter | kjon | gjonH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kɨɐn/ | /ɡɨɐn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kiɐn/ | /ɡiɐn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kiɐn/ | /ɡiɐn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kɨan/ | /gɨan$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kiɐn/ | /ɡiɐn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭɐn/ | /ɡĭɐn$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kɨ̯ɐn/ | /gɨ̯ɐn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jiān | jiàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gin$^1$ | gin$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*kan/, /*ɡans/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 腱 | 腱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 6216 | 6225 |
| Phonetic component | 建 | 建 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𢳚 | 健 |
| Old Chinese | /*kan/ | /*ɡans/ |

### Definitions

腱
* tendons

#### Synonyms

* (Hokkien) 筋絡／筋络

### Compounds

* 牛腱 (niújiàn)
* 肌腱 (jījiàn)
* 腱子 (jiànzi)
* 腱鞘 (jiànqiào)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: こん (kon)
* Kan-on: けん (ken)
* On: きん (kin)

### Pronunciation

* Kanji in this term
* 腱
* けん Hyōgai
* kan'on
* (Tokyo) けん [kéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [kẽ̞ɴ]

### Noun

腱(けん) • (ken)
* (anatomy) a tendon

#### See also

* 筋(すじ) (suji)

## Korean
### Hanja

腱 • (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune–Reischauer kŏn, Yale ken)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

### See also

* 심줄 (simjul)
* 힘줄 (himjul)