骨

Translingual

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Stroke order

Simplified Chinese

Stroke order (Japan)

Alternative forms

• ⻣
• ⾻

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #188, ⾻.

Usage notes

The top section of the character turns left (◱) in the simplified character used in PRC and Singapore, while it turns right (◲) in the traditional character used elsewhere.

Derived glyphs

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		骨
simp. #		骨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 骨
Shang		Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (骨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
顝	*kʰuːl, *kʰuːlʔ, *kʰuːd
滑	*ɡruːd, *kuːd, *ɡuːd
猾	*ɡruːd
磆	*ɡruːd
螖	*ɡruːd
鶻	*ɡruːd, *kuːd, *ɡuːd
嗗	*qruːd
骨	*kuːd
縎	*kuːd
愲	*kuːd
蓇	*kuːd
尳	*kuːd, *ɡuːd
榾	*kuːd
搰	*ɡuːd
核	*ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 骨

1. (anatomy) bone
2. skeleton; frame; framework
3. moral character
4. (Cantonese, from English quarter) 15 minutes
5. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

骨

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. skeleton
2. bone

Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: こつ (kotsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほね (hone, 骨, Jōyō); かわら (kawara)

Compounds

Compounds

• 鐙骨(あぶみこつ) (abumikotsu), 鐙骨(とうこつ) (tōkotsu): stapes
• 陰茎骨(いんけいこつ) (inkeikotsu): baculum
• 烏喙骨(うかいこつ) (ukaikotsu): coracoid (bone)
• 烏口骨(うこうこつ) (ukōkotsu): coracoid (bone)
• 烏骨鶏(うこっけい) (ukokkei): silky, silkie (breed of chicken)
• 烏啄骨(うたくこつ) (utakukotsu): coracoid (bone)
• 顴骨(かんこつ) (kankotsu), 顴骨(けんこつ) (kenkotsu): cheekbone
• 砧骨(きぬたこつ) (kinutakotsu), 砧骨(ちんこつ) (chinkotsu): incus
• 胸骨(きょうこつ) (kyōkotsu): sternum, breastbone
• 頬骨(きょうこつ) (kyōkotsu): cheekbone
• 距骨(きょこつ) (kyokotsu): anklebone
• 鯨骨(げいこつ) (geikotsu): whale bone
• 楔状骨(けつじょうこつ) (ketsujōkotsu): cuneiform bone
• 肩甲骨(けんこうこつ) (kenkōkotsu), 肩胛骨(けんこうこつ) (kenkōkotsu): shoulder blade
• 骨格(こっかく) (kokkaku): skeleton; framework; physique, build
• 骨角(こっかく) (kokkaku): bone and horn; a protruding, horn-like bone
• 骨子(こっし) (kosshi): the gist, the main point
• 骨折(こっせつ) (kossetsu): a bone fracture, a broken bone
• 骨頂(こっちょう) (kotchō): (metaphorical) the height or pinnacle of something, such as "the height of folly"
• 骨董(こっとう) (kottō): an antique; something ancient and anachronistic, something very old-fashioned
• 骨董品(こっとうひん) (kottōhin): an antique; something ancient and anachronistic, something very old-fashioned
• 骨牌(こっぱい) (koppai): a certain kind of traditional Japanese playing card; a certain mah-jongg tile depicting animal bones
• 骨盤(こつばん) (kotsuban): the pelvis
• 鎖骨(さこつ) (sakotsu): clavicle
• 坐骨(ざこつ) (zakotsu): ischium
• 肢骨(しこつ) (shikotsu): appendicular bone
• 指骨(しこつ) (shikotsu): phalanx
• 趾骨(しこつ) (shikotsu): phalanx (toe bone)
• 歯骨(しこつ) (shikotsu): dentary bone
• 篩骨(しこつ) (shikotsu): ethmoid bone
• 嘴骨(しこつ) (shikotsu): rostral bone
• 膝蓋骨(しつがいこつ) (shitsugaikotsu): kneecap
• 尺骨(しゃっこつ) (shakkotsu): ulna
• 踵骨(しょうこつ) (shōkotsu): heel bone
• 顳顬骨(しょうじゅこつ) (shōjukotsu): temporal bone
• 鋤骨(じょこつ) (jokotsu): vomer bone
• 脊椎骨(せきついこつ) (sekitsuikotsu): vertebra
• 接骨(せっこつ) (sekkotsu): bonesetting
• 舌骨(ぜつこつ) (zetsukotsu): hyoid bone
• 仙骨(せんこつ) (senkotsu): sacrum
• 側頭骨(そくとうこつ) (sokutōkotsu): temporal bone
• 大腿骨(だいたいこつ) (daitaikotsu): femur
• 恥骨(ちこつ) (chikotsu): pubis
• 蝶形骨(ちょうけいこつ) (chōkeikotsu): sphenoid bone
• 椎骨(ついこつ) (tsuikotsu): vertebra
• 槌骨(つちこつ) (tsuchikotsu), 槌骨(ついこつ) (tsuikotsu): malleus
• 蹄骨(ていこつ) (teikotsu): coffin bone
• 橈骨(とうこつ) (tōkotsu): radius
• 頭骨(とうこつ) (tōkotsu): skull
• 頭蓋骨(とうがいこつ) (tōgaikotsu), 頭蓋骨(ずがいこつ) (zugaikotsu): cranium
• 腓骨(ひこつ) (hikotsu): fibula
• 尾骨(びこつ) (bikotsu): coccyx, tailbone
• 尾骶骨(びていこつ) (biteikotsu): coccyx, tailbone
• 尾閭骨(びりょこつ) (biryokotsu): coccyx, tailbone
• 涙骨(るいこつ) (ruikotsu): lacrimal bone
• 肋骨(ろっこつ) (rokkotsu): rib

Etymology 1

骨 (hone): a bone.

Kanji in this term
骨
ほね Grade: 6
kun'yomi

/pone/ → /ɸone/ → /hone/

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese. Possibly cognate with Korean 뼈 (ppyeo, “bone”).

Noun

骨(ほね) • (hone) 

1. bone
2. a rib,

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
骨
かわら Grade: 6
kun'yomi

/kapara/ → /kaɸara/ → /kawara/

Probably from Sanskrit कपालः (kapāla, “cup, bowl, skull”). Cognate with 瓦 (kawara, “tile, particularly for roofing or flooring”).

Alternative forms

• 䯊

Noun

骨(かわら) • (kawara) ^{←かはら (kafara)?}

1. (archaic, rare) a bone, particularly a covering bone such as a skull or kneecap

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
骨
こつ Grade: 6
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 骨 (kwot, “bone”).

Noun

骨(こつ) • (kotsu) 

1. remains, ashes
2. knack, trick

Alternative forms

• (knack, trick): コツ (kotsu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Okinawan

Kanji

骨 (hiragana くち, romaji kuchi)

Noun

骨 (hiragana くち, romaji kuchi)

1. remains, ashes

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 骨 (cốt, cọt, cút, gút)

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References

• Nom Foundation