膝 xī knee
怎么记住“膝”: 月 meat + 桼 lacquer = knee. Grandpa drops some meat from the barbecue onto the wet lacquer of his new deck, kneels for it and leaves the print of his knee.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
膝 = 月 meat + 桼 lacquer
- 月 meat meaning
- 桼 lacquer sound
Grandpa drops some meat from the barbecue onto the wet lacquer of his new deck, kneels for it and leaves the print of his knee.
How it came to be
The flesh gives the meaning and the lacquer the sound; the word was first written with a kneeling person in place of the flesh.
用法
- "Knee": 膝盖 (xīgài) the knee (everyday word), 膝下 (xīxià) at one's knees (a formal way of referring to having children).
- Idiom 促膝谈心 (cùxī-tánxīn) to sit knee-to-knee for a heart-to-heart talk.