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bone
Phonosemantic compound. 骨 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 骼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bones | ||
skeleton | ||
striated muscle | ||
exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3615% of movies
3190th most common character in movies
3459th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+9ABC |
Shuowen | “骼，禽獸之骨曰骼。从骨，合聲。” |
Sources
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