All kinds of Japanese words for parts of the body have kanji with the “meat-moon” radical, including the brain (脳), shoulders (肩), knees (膝), and arms (腕 ...

such as how the Japanese word tsuki (moon) came to be written using the character 月. The originally Japanese pronunciation for kanji is known as the kun reading. Why is this important?

Note: The same kanji character is used for getsu in mangetsu (full moon), gatsu in jugatsu (October), and tsuki (moon). Japanese original The easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi ...