骨

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

Alternative forms

• ⻣
• ⾻

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 冎 (“skull”) + ⺼ (“body”)

Han character

骨 (radical 188 骨+0, in Chinese 9 strokes, in Japanese 10 strokes, cangjie input 月月月 (BBB), four-corner 7722₇)

1. bone
2. skeleton
3. frame, framework

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/骨
• 滑, 搰, 鶻, 𩪗, 𩪦, 䯉, 顝, 尳, 縎

References

• KangXi: page 1447, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45098
• Dae Jaweon: page 1973, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4406, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9AA8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

骨 (Yale gwat1)

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Japanese

Kanji

骨 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. skeleton
2. bone

Readings

• On: こつ (kotsu)
• Kun: ほね (hone)

Compounds

• 骨格
• 骨子
• 骨折
• 骨頂
• 骨董
• 骨牌
• 骨盤

References

JIS: 397C Kuten: 2592 Shift JIS: 8D9C EUC-JP: B9FC Frequency: 936 Nelson: 5236

New Nelson: 6784 Halpern: 2654 Halpern Learners: 1699 Heisig: 1288 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 4b6.14

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Etymology 1

pone > ɸone > hone.

Noun

骨 (hiragana ほね, romaji hone)

1. bone

Etymology 2

/kahara/: *[kapara] > [kaɸara] > [kawara].

Alternative forms

• 䯊

Noun

骨 (hiragana かわら, romaji kawara, historical hiragana かはら)

1. bone
2. skull

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Korean

Hanja

骨 (hangeul 골, revised gol, McCune-Reischauer kol, Yale kol)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

骨 (pinyin gǔ (gu3), Wade-Giles ku³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

骨 (*guət)

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Vietnamese

Han character

骨 (cốt, cọt, cút, gút)