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骨 U+9AA8, 骨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AA8
← 骧
[U+9AA7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 骩 →
[U+9AA9]
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⾻ U+2FBB, ⾻
KANGXI RADICAL BONE
← ⾺
[U+2FBA] 		Kangxi Radicals ⾼ →
[U+2FBC]
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⻣ U+2EE3, ⻣
CJK RADICAL BONE
← ⻢
[U+2EE2] 		CJK Radicals Supplement ⻤ →
[U+2EE4]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

  • In Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), Japanese kanji, Korean hanja, and Vietnamese Nôm, 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 (新字形) standardized form), 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 ⺝ (similar to 月), but the leftmost stroke is vertical (丨) and not curved (丿), which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
  • In Taiwan (Traditional Chinese), the bottom component is written in the form of ⺼ (meat radical, similar to 月 where the leftmost stroke is curved 丿 but the two horizontal strokes enclosed within are written 冫 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.

Han character

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Radical 188 骨

骨 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+0, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 月月月 (BBB), four-corner 77227, composition ⿱⿵⿰丨𠃍𠃍肎(G) or ⿱⿵⿰丨𠃍⿰丨一肎(HTJKV))

  1. Kangxi radical #188, ⾻.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №134

Derived characters

Further reading

  • 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

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 骨, Shang ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (骨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 冎 (“skull”) + ⺼ (“body”).

Etymology 1

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Usually related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m/g-rus (“bone”), whence Tibetan རུས (rus), Nuosu ꃷꅍ (vup ddu), S'gaw Karen တၢ်ဃံ (ta̱xee), but there is no trace of a medial *r in Chinese (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, Luce (1981) compares Burmese ခုတ် (hkut, “to chop, hew”), which appears phonetically much closer, as well as semantically reasonable, if animal bones were interpreted as "hewed pieces".

Pronunciation

Note:
  • gǔ - usual pronunciation;
  • gū - used in some colloquial words, such as 骨朵兒 (“unbloomed flower”) and 骨碌 (“to roll”);
  • gú - used in some colloquial words, such as 骨頭 (“bone”).
  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

骨

  1. (anatomy) bone
  2. (anatomy) skeleton
  3. (figurative) frame; framework
  4. (figurative) moral character
  5. (Cantonese, Mainland China Hokkien) sarcasm
    佢句句說話都有骨。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢句句说话都有骨。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    keoi5 geoi3 geoi3 syut3 waa6 dou1 jau5 gwat1. [Jyutping]
    All his sentences are sarcastic.
  6. (Mainland China Hokkien) the hell (usually in a question in mild disdain)
  7. (Quanzhou Hokkien) clever; intelligent; smart
  8. a surname, Gu
Synonyms
  • (moral character):
Dialectal synonyms of 聰明 (“clever; intelligent; smart; bright”) [map]
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Compounds

Etymology 2

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From English quarter.

Pronunciation

Definitions

骨

  1. (Cantonese) quarter of an hour; 15 minutes (Classifier: 個／个 c)
    三點一個骨／三点一个骨 [Cantonese]  ―  saam1 dim2 jat1 go3 gwat1 [Jyutping]  ―  quarter past three
    五點三個骨／五点三个骨 [Cantonese]  ―  ng5 dim2 saam1 go3 gwat1 [Jyutping]  ―  quarter to six (literally three quarters past five)
  2. (Cantonese) one fourth; a quarter
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