guǎ
bone
Pictograph of bones. Original form of 骨 (bone).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤrajʔ | kwaeX | guǎ | cut meat from the bone |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+518E |
Shuowen | “冎,剔人肉置其骨也。象形,頭隆骨也。” |
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