muscle / tendon / veins visible under the skin / sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) trained so much that her muscles (筋) burst her harness in front of the encampment ((e)n1). To cover her ribs (肋) she makes a larger armor out of bamboo sticks (⺮).

筋 character breakdown

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

Mnemonic symbol: a bamboo stick.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is cooking bamboo shoots in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He's cooking them in a large pot and stirs them with a bamboo stick (⺮).
bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

= 𠂉 + + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.
rib / Taiwan pr. [le4]

= + : Lancelot (l) finds that there is a sign written on the moon (月) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) which reads "a solar plexus says what?". Lancelot pushes the power button (力) below, and instantly the moon punches Lancelot and breaks two of his ribs (肋).

Characters with 筋 as component

筋 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 筋

to be a real headache / to find sth a real headache / to beat one's brains
to use one's brains / to think
low-gluten flour / cake flour / pastry flour / soft flour
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
penis (Chinese medicine)
(coll.) dim-witted / foolish / absent-minded
stubborn / inflexible / one-track minded
all-purpose flour / flour for making dumplings and noodles

Sentences with 筋

筋 currently does not appear in any sentence.