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Kanji Detail for 脈 - "pulse, vein, connection"

脈

  • Meaning

    脈 means "pulse, vein, connection."

    1. Pulse - The heartbeat in blood vessels.

    2. Vein - A blood vessel.

    3. Connection - A continuous line.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    vein; pulse; hope

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    blood vessels, veins, arteries

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    a pulse; arteries, veins; blood vessels

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Blood vessels. Distributed throughout the body. Making blood flow and circulate endlessly. Those sending blood are called 動脈 (arteries). Those returning blood are called 靜脈 (veins). | All things connected with orderly patterns are called 脈. Such as 山脈 (mountain range), 泉脈 (spring vein). | The pulse. When doctors check illness at the wrist side, anciently divided into three positions: cun, guan, and chi. Corresponding to the internal organs. Left and right hands together make six pulses. | 葉脈 (leaf veins). The vein patterns on plant leaves. Such as parallel veins, net veins, etc. | 脈脈. The appearance of gazing at each other. Such as saying 脈脈無語 (gazing silently).
  • Onyomitip

    baku(ばく) ばく

    myaku(みゃく) みゃく

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    suji(すじ) すじ

  • Strokestip

    10 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    肉 月 (niku・nikuzuki)

  • Related Keywords
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Sentences including 脈

  • The doctor felt his pulse.

  • The doctor felt my pulse.

  • What's the name of the mountain range?

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