Language/Japanese/Vocabulary/Parts-of-the-Body

Parts of the body in Japanese

You will find below a list of common words and expressions that use parts of the body.

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Vocabulary

Here is how to say the parts of the body in japanese:

Japanese (Kanji)	Transliteration	English
体	karada	body
肢体	shitai	limbs
髪	kami	hair
頭	atama	head
顔	kao	face
耳	mimi	ear
首	kubi	neck
目	me	eye
鼻	hana	nose
頬	hoho	cheek
口	kuchi	mouth
唇	kuchibiru	lips
喉	nodo	throat
歯	ha	tooth
胸	mune	chest
腹	hara	stomach
膝	hiza	knee
足首	ashikubi	ankle
足	ashi	foot / leg
つま先	tsumasaki	toe
腕	ude	arm
肩	kata	shoulder
肘	hiji	elbow
手首	tekubi	wrist
手	te	hand
指	yubi	finger
爪	tsume	fingernail
背中	senaka	back

There is some interesting points.

For some parts of the body, for example in hand and wrist we can see the kanji 手. In the words ankle and leg we can see the kanji 足. So, we can easily understand the relation between close limbs.

Fingers

Japanese (Kanji)	Transliteration	English
親指	oyayubi	thumb
人差し指	hitosashiyubi	index finger
中指	nakayubi	middle finger
薬指	kusuriyubi	ring finger
小指	koyubi	small finger

Common idioms

Ō me ni miru / 大目に見る : to stare somebody with large eye. Means, to be caring.

In French, it exists a similar expression but with the opposite meaning : “faire les gros yeux”.

This means to be not satisfy by the behavior of other people.

Japanese	Transliteration	English
頭があかりません	Atama ga akarimasen	I can’t hold my head high. When you are grateful and you want to show it to somebody, you say this!
お腹がすいた	O naka ga suita	to get stomach empty
お腹がいっぱい	O naka ga ippai	to get stomach full.
喉が渇いた	Nodo ga kawaita	to become thirsty
耳がタコになる	Mimi ga tako ni naru	talking unceasingly the same thing and annoying people.

VIDEOS

This video is cut in several parts Here is the PART 1 but you can easily navigate to the other parts.

Authors

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