ヒラメ筋

ヒラメ筋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
筋
きん Grade: 6
kan’on

Alternative spellings
平目筋 比目魚筋

Etymology

ヒラメ (“flatfish; flounder”) +‎ 筋 (“muscle”), so called for the flatfish shape

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ヒラメ​きん [hìráméꜜkìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])
• (Tokyo) ヒラメきん [hìrámékíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [çiɾa̠me̞kʲĩɴ]

Noun

ヒラメ筋(きん) • (hiramekin) 

1. (anatomy) a soleus muscle