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I was doing my vocab training and added a few body parts.

Then I noticed that [the word I had found in the English Wiktionary for
"knuckle"](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%8C%87%E9%96%A2%E7%AF%80) seems
to be untypable with my Windows Japanese IME.

This made me wonder if it's yet another case of learners "using too much
kanji", etc. Is this a rare or unusual word, a word usually written in kana,
or just a mistake in Wiktionary or of my own making?
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is 指関節{しかんせつ} a "normal" japanese word or a rare technical one?
I think in daily conversation it would be [指]{ゆび}の関節. 指関節 will sound
technical.

EDIT: I think both ゆびかんせつ and しかんせつ can be used, but I'm not 100% sure. As for
指の[節]{ふし}, this isn't technical and can be used in daily language but I think
it's a bit more uncommon and sounds a tiny bit archaic.
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