骨

Stroke order (Mainland China)

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Stroke order (Japan)

• 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 (新字形) 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 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.

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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(GV) or ⿱⿵⿰丨𠃍⿰丨一肎(HTJK))

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

• Appendix:Chinese radical/骨
• 傦, 嗗, 尳, 𡻋, 𭘱, 愲, 搰, 滑, 猾, 𡰅, 榾, 𣨺, 𤚱, 𦞽, 𥛔, 𥉄, 磆, 𥠳, 𧜓, 𠬒, 縎(𦈔), 𦎰, 𦖼, 螖, 𧳸, 𧽌, 𨃴, 𨉦, 𨍾, 𨪷, 餶(馉), 䮩, 䱻(𮬡), 𪄥, 𬛟, 𬗁, 䶤
• 𠞡, 𩀜, 顝, 鶻(鹘), 蓇, 𥱪, 𩄨, 𥐒, 㾶, 𤼑

• 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

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

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

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).

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.

   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

• (bone): 骨頭／骨头 (gǔtou), (Eastern Min) 骨骨
• (skeleton): 骨架 (gǔjià)
• (frame):

• (moral character):

• (the hell): 鬼 (guǐ); (Hokkien) 碗糕, 番薯, 骨頭／骨头
• (intelligent):

From English quarter.

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   ―  quarter past three

   五點三個骨／五点三个骨 [Cantonese]  ―  ng⁵ dim² saam¹ go³ gwat¹   ―  quarter to six (literally three quarters past five)

2. (Cantonese) one fourth; a quarter

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. skeleton
2. bone

• Go-on: こち (kochi)^{←こち (koti, historical)}
• Kan-on: こつ (kotsu, Jōyō)^{←こつ (kotu, historical)}
• Kun: ほね (hone, 骨, Jōyō)^{←ほね (fone, ほね, historical)}、かわら (kawara)^{←かはら (kafara, historical)}

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

骨

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bone

Wikipedia

/pone/ → /ɸone/ → /hone/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pənay.

• (Tokyo) ほね (Odaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

骨(ほね) • (hone) 

1. bone

/kapara/ → /kaɸara/ → /kawara/

Probably from Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “cup, bowl, skull”). Cognate with 瓦 (kawara, “tile, particularly for roofing or flooring”).^[2]

• IPA^(key):

骨(かわら) • (kawara) ^{←かはら (kafara)?}

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

From Middle Chinese 骨 (MC kwot, “bone”).

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

• (Tokyo) こつ (Heiban – )^[1][3] (remains, ashes)
• (Tokyo) こつ (Odaka – )^[1][3] (knack)
• IPA^(key):