脈

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

脉

🇨🇳

blood vessels

HSK 10 N1

Human →Body →Body Parts

mài

ミャク

すじ

맥

Vessels carry blood through one's body ⺼ like a branching river 𠂢

Components

Traditional (脈)

⺼ meat (side)+ 𠂢 river branching =

脈 blood vessels

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat (side)

meat

𠂢 Meaning component

pài river branching

to branch

Simplified (脉)

⺼ meat (side)+ 永 eternity =

脉 blood vessels

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat (side)

meat

永 Meaning component

yǒng eternity

long, perpetual, eternal, forever

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

脈

Regular

Modern

Chinese

脉 / 脈 [mài]

arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

脉 / 脈 [mò]

see 脈脈|脉脉[mòmò]

Japanese

脈、脉 (rare) みゃく同音

noun

pulse
vein
chain (of mountains, etc.)
hope
thread (of an argument)

Korean

맥 [脈]

Noun

energy; Energy or strength.; flow; context; An interconnected relationship or connected flow.; mineral deposit; mineral reserves; A crack in a rock where a lot of useful minerals are deposited.; conduit of energy; A path through which the energy of mountains or land flows in the system of pungsu or feng shui.; pulse; The regular movement of arteries that is prompted by the heartbeat.

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

脈が遅いです。

My pulse is slow.