Anatomy basics

Hey all!

As I’m making my way through the mid 20s, there’s been a lot of new kanji (kanjis?) about body parts (insert 金玉 joke here). When we initially learned in bio, diagrams really helped clarify and retain a lot of things - so here’s one:

It’d be nice if this could be turned into some kind of drag and drop or fill in the blank game.

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Japandict has some images like this too. For example for the body:

https://www.japandict.com/articles/karada-body

From the site, the image is also clickable so you can go to the various words. They also have these for things like positions, winter/spring themed, clothes etc.

https://www.japandict.com/articles?tags=espai-wabi-sabi

I’ve tried to find the source images from the site they have pulled these from but without much success.

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That’s pretty neat. Any luck with a quiz of some kind? That’d be most helpful

I noticed that 腰 is translated as waist but is usually used when talking about lower back, especially by elderly people complaining about pain.
For thighs there is anothe word: 太腿(ふともも)but it could aslo mean butt.

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I also see 股 for that sometimes (also もも)

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