骨

骨 U+9AA8, 骨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AA8
← 骧
[U+9AA7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 骩 →
[U+9AA9]

Translingual

Taiwanese
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Simplified Chinese
Japanese
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Alternative forms

The inner component on the top of the character is positioned to the left (◱) in simplified Chinese used in China, Singapore and Malaysia and also in Vietnamese Nom script (⻣) whereas the inner top component is positioned to the right (◲) in traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau) as well as Japan and Korea which maintains the traditional form of the character (⾻).

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #188, ⾻.

Derived characters

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

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) : 冎 (“skull”) + ⺼ (“body”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • gǔ - usual pronunciation;
  • gú - used in some colloquial words, such as 骨頭 (“bone”) and 骨碌 (“to roll”);
  • gū - used in some colloquial words, such as 骨朵兒 (“unbloomed flower”).
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 骨
Mandarin Beijing /ku²¹⁴/
/ku³⁵/
Harbin /ku²¹³/
Tianjin /ku¹³/ ～折
/ku²¹/ ～頭
Jinan /ku²¹³/
Qingdao /ku⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ku²⁴/
Xi'an /ku²¹/
Xining /kv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ku¹³/
Lanzhou /ku¹³/
Ürümqi /ku²¹³/
Wuhan /ku²¹³/
Chengdu /ku³¹/
Guiyang /ku²¹/
Kunming /ku³¹/
Nanjing /kuʔ⁵/
Hefei /kuəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kuəʔ²/
Pingyao /kuʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kuəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kuəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kuəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kuoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ky²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kuʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ku⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ku²⁴/
Xiangtan /ku²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kuɨʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kut̚¹/
Taoyuan /kut̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwɐt̚⁵/
Nanning /kɛɐt̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kwɐt̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kut/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɔuʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ko²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kuk̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kut̚⁵/
Rime
Character 骨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 沒 (56)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古忽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuət̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuot̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwət̚/
Li
Rong		 /kuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /kuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 骨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwot ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤut/
English bone

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 骨
Reading # 1/1
No. 4321
Phonetic
component		 骨
Rime
group		 物
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 骨
Old
Chinese		 /*kuːd/
Notes 冎亦聲

Definitions

骨

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

骨

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. skeleton
  2. bone

Readings

Compounds

References

  • 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

骨 (hone): a bone.
Kanji in this term
骨
ほね
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

/pone/ → /ɸone/ → /hone/

From Old Japanese. Possibly cognate with Korean 뼈 (ppyeo, “bone”).

Pronunciation

Noun

骨 (hiragana ほね, rōmaji 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”).[2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  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 Middle Chinese 骨 (kwot, “bone”).

Pronunciation

Noun

骨 (hiragana こつ, rōmaji kotsu)

  1. remains, ashes
  2. knack, trick
Alternative forms
  • (knack, trick): コツ (kotsu)

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  3. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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

Vietnamese

Han character

骨 (cốt, cọt, cút, gút)

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References

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