hái
skeleton
Phonosemantic compound. 骨 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 骸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
remains | ||
bones of the body | ||
(dead) human remains | ||
skeleton | ||
corpse |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤrə | heaj | hái | bones, skeleton |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.1555% of movies
2656th most common character in movies
2707th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+9AB8 |
Shuowen | “骸，脛骨也。从骨，亥聲。” |
Sources
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