gǔ
bone
Pictograph of a bone (冎) with muscle (肉) attached to it.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 骨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
bone | ||
bone | ||
fracture | ||
fig. backbone | ||
bone marrow (medulla ossea) |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤut | kwot | gǔ | bone |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 34.4226% of movies
955th most common character in movies
1036th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+9AA8 |
Shuowen | “骨,肉之覈也。从冎,有肉。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.336
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