骨

Alternative forms

 * In Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the inner component on the top of the character is drawn with two strokes both starting from the center, and positioned to the right (◲) ( 骨, ⾻ , 骨 ), which is the orthodox form found in the historical Kangxi dictionary.
 * In mainland China (based on Xin Zixing standardized form) and Vietnamese Nôm, the inner component on the top of the character is drawn with a single stroke starting from the left, and positioned to the left (◱) ( 骨 ).
 * In mainland China (Xin Zixing), Hong Kong and Macau (Traditional Chinese), Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the bottom component is written in the form of (similar to ), but the leftmost stroke is vertical  and not curved, which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
 * In Taiwan (Traditional Chinese), the bottom component is written in the form of (meat radical, similar to  where the leftmost stroke is curved  but the two horizontal strokes enclosed within are written  instead).
 * Due to Han unification, this character may or may not appear different, depending on the fonts available (the curvature or straightness of the leftmost stroke in the bottom part is not significant and may vary slightly between fonts):
 * 骨 : traditional Kangxi form (10 strokes) in Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, Vietnam;
 * 骨 : traditional modified form (10 strokes) in Taiwan;
 * 骨 : simplified form (9 strokes) in Mainland China.

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/骨

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
Usually related to, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, but there is no trace of a medial in Chinese.

Definitions

 * 1)  bone
 * 2)  skeleton
 * 3)  frame; framework
 * 4)  moral character
 * 5)  sarcasm
 * 6)  the hell
 * 7)  clever; intelligent; smart
 * : Gu
 * : Gu

Synonyms






Etymology 2
From.

Definitions

 * 1)  quarter of an hour; 15 minutes
 * 2)  one fourth; a quarter
 * 1)  one fourth; a quarter
 * 1)  one fourth; a quarter

Kanji

 * 1) skeleton
 * 2) bone

Etymology 1


→ →

From, from.

Noun

 * 1) bone

Etymology 2
→ →

Probably from. Cognate with.

Noun

 * 1)  a bone, particularly a covering bone such as a skull or kneecap

Etymology 3
From.

The sense comes from the idea of the bones as the innermost core or essence of something.

Noun

 * 1) remains, ashes
 * 2)  knack, trick

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
From, from earlier. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bone
 * 2) frame (of a sliding paper door, etc)
 * 3) stem, stalk

Etymology 2
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) remains, ashes