骨肉

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Chinese

bone meat; flesh
trad. (骨肉)
simp. #(骨肉)
anagram 肉骨

Pronunciation


Note:
  • kut-jio̍k/kut-lio̍k - literary (“flesh and blood; kindred”);
  • kut-bah/kut-hia̍k/kut-he̍k - vernacular (“meat and bones”).

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1 1/1
    Initial () (28) (38)
    Final () (56) (4)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed Open
    Division () I III
    Fanqie
    Baxter kwot nyuwk
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /kuət̚/ /ȵɨuk̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /kuot̚/ /ȵiuk̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /kuət̚/ /ȵʑiuk̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /kwət̚/ /ȵuwk̚/
    Li
    Rong
    /kuət̚/ /ȵiuk̚/
    Wang
    Li
    /kuət̚/ /ȵʑĭuk̚/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /kuət̚/ /ȵʑi̯uk̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    gu
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    gwat1 juk6
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    ròu
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ kwot › ‹ nyuwk ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*kˁut/ /*k.nuk/
    English bone meat, flesh

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

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
    Reading # 1/1 1/1
    No. 4321 10866
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    2 1
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*kuːd/ /*njuɡ/
    Notes

    Noun

    骨肉

    1. (literally) bones and flesh
    2. (figurative) flesh and blood; blood relative; kindred; kin
    3. (figurative) close relations; kinship

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    Sino-Xenic (骨肉):

    References

    • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “骨肉”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 228.

    Japanese

    Kanji in this term
    こつ
    Grade: 6
    にく
    Grade: 2
    on'yomi

    Noun

    (こつ)(にく) (kotsuniku

    1. one's own flesh and blood, a blood relative

    Vietnamese

    chữ Hán Nôm in this term

    Noun

    骨肉

    1. (literary) chữ Hán form of cốt nhục (one's own flesh and blood, a blood relative).