noun
shin; front of the lower leg
Refers to the shin bone area, from knee to ankle. Used in everyday contexts and medical descriptions.
サッカーで向こう脛を蹴られて痛かった。
I got kicked in the shin during soccer and it hurt.
向こう脛の骨を折ってしまった。
I broke my shin bone.
Irregular okurigana variant; less common.
Irregular okurigana variant with mixed kana; less common.
脛 alone also means shin, but 向こう脛 emphasizes the front-facing part of the lower leg.
Compound of 向こう (mukō, 'facing, opposite') and 脛 (sune, 'shin'), literally 'the facing shin'.