Illustration: On the wooden veranda of a Japanese home, a child in shorts sits with one leg bent and the other stretched comfortably forward. A grandparent applies a small adhesive bandage directly over the rounded front of the bent knee after a minor playground scrape.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

膝ひざ

hiza

knee

Example sentences

水みずは私わたしのひざの高たかさだった。
The water came up to my knees.
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雪ゆきは膝ひざの深ふかさだった。
The snow was knee deep.
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彼女かのじょは転ころんでひざを痛いためた。
She fell down and hurt her knee.
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Kanji in 膝

膝knee; lapOnシツKunひざ

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