Keyword
knee
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 2
Heisig1002
Readings
ひざ
(98%)
しつ
(1%)
Composed of
moon
tree
person
water splash
Used in vocabulary (73 in total)
knee; lap; knee and thigh (while sitting)
to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)
laying one's head in someone's lap; using someone's lap for a pillow
Examples (19 in total)
She felt her knees tremble.
The water came up to my knees.
My knee hurts a lot.
Does your knee still hurt?
My knee hurts.
But you don't want to bend the knees too much.
One of the kittens fell asleep in my lap.
I hurt my knee playing soccer.
I hurt my knee today, so I'm not going to practice today.
Both Tom and Mary hurt their knees.
Tom hurt his knee when he fell down.
She put her elbows on her knees.
The thin man paused in the shade with his knees a little bent.
Nancy put her elbows on her knees.
Tom scraped his knee.
I fell off my bike and scraped my knee.
When you skateboard, it puts quite a strain on your knees.
He saw a small Band-Aid on her left knee.
The flat, dish-shaped bone in front of the knee joint is called the patella.