かた
shoulder
A hinge that takes the weight, a door hung on flesh. You carried the bag on it all day and now it will not lift. The same かた as the karate kata: かた.
Same reading as 方 かた, the polite word for a person, and later 型 かた, a type or mould. 肩が凝る is stiff shoulders.
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