肺
Let’s study kanji 肺 together!
今日の漢字は『肺』にしましょう。
肺臓 - はいぞう lungs
肺炎 - はいえん pneumonia
肺癌 - はいがん lung cancer
肺移植 - はいいしょく lung transplant
🚭 皆さん、健康のためタバコを絶対吸わないでくださいね！🚭
P.S. Did you know that many kanji for body parts, especially those denoting the internal organs, contain the character ⺝on their left-hand side?
What appears to be a half-sized kanji meaning ‘moon’ is in fact… a meat radical 肉. This variation is called にくづき, or the ‘meat moon’.
肉 ＞ ⺼ ＞ ⺝
How to distinguish the moon from the meat? (tricky question! )
にくづき is almost exclusively on the left side of the character, so-called へん（偏）, whereas the moon radical つき is most often found in つくり（旁）position.
Here are some examples illustrating the point: