肩甲骨

Japanese
Kanji in this term
肩 甲 骨
けん
Grade: S		 こう
Grade: S		 こつ
Grade: 6
kan’on
Alternative spelling
肩胛骨

Etymology

Probably from written Chinese 肩胛骨 (jiānjiǎgǔ). The original sense in Chinese is unclear; it may have been shoulder blade, scapula, or it may have been more generally just shoulder bone.

First cited in Japanese in a medical dictionary from 1872.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) けんこ​ーこつ [kèńkóꜜòkòtsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [kẽ̞ŋko̞ːko̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

肩(けん)甲(こう)骨(こつ) • (kenkōkotsu) ←けんかふこつ (kenkafukotu)?

  1. shoulder blade, scapula

Usage notes

This was originally written as 肩胛骨. The more common modern spelling 肩甲骨 uses the slightly simpler character 甲 instead of 胛.

See also
  • 肩(けん)甲(こう) (kenkō, “shoulder (anatomy)”)
  • 肩(かた)甲(よろい) (kata yoroi, “shoulder armor, such as a spaulder or pauldron”)

References
  1. “肩甲骨・肩胛骨”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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