shinzō

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt  
Word form shinzō
Original script 心臓
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning heart in the medical sense
Comments on word First attested variant shin no zō, shinzō first attested around 1358.
Analyzability analyzable compound
Gloss shin-zō heart-organ
Age Middle Japanese [21] (1185–1603)
Lexical stratum kango
Year bf. 14th century
Register General
Numeric frequency 25.7