kuān

hipbone

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
骨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

bone

寬 sound component

  Sound component

kuān

  

broad

Evolution

髖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
髖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuān

hipbone; hip; pelvis; pelvic

Most common words with 髖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

pelvis

髋关节

pelvis

髋骨

hip bone

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5086th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+9AD6

Shuowen

“髖,髀上也。从骨,寬聲。”


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