肯綮 kěnqìng junction of muscle and bone Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 肯 kěn adjective meat on the bone (bound form) (literary) the meat attached to a bone; often used in the sense of a crucial or central point綮 qǐng (bound form) joint (bound form) the place where muscles and bones connect; used in the compound 肯綮 kěnqìng