筋肉

きんにく
muscle, sinew

Reading

Readingきんにく
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji筋肉

Meanings

  1. muscle
  2. sinew

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

筋肉をつける
きんにくをつけるBuild muscle.
筋肉がついてさらにワイルドになった
きんにくがついてさらにわいるどになったHe's bulked up and looks even more rugged.
スクワットで、脚の筋肉を鍛えなくては。
すくわっとで、あしのきんにくをきたえなくては。I need to build up my leg muscles with squats.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 筋肉

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked