骨 gǔ

1. gǔ noun bone
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CMG 'bone'; Guoyu '骨' n 1; Kroll 2015 '骨' 1; Unihan '骨'; XHZD '骨')
2. gǔ noun Kangxi radical 188
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Bone (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '骨' n 5)
3. gǔ noun skeleton
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Unihan '骨')
4. gǔ noun frame; framework
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 架子 (Guoyu '骨' n 2; Unihan '骨')
5. gǔ noun basic character; spirit; mettle
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 气概 or 风格 (Guoyu '骨' n 3; Kroll 2015 '骨' 2)
6. gǔ noun structure of an argument or written composition
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '骨' 3)
7. gǔ proper noun Gu
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '骨' n 4)

Contained in

• 肱骨 humerus
• 稀松骨质(稀鬆骨質) cancellous bone; trabecular bone; spongy bone
• 粘皮带骨(粘皮帶骨) muddled; indecisive; plodding
• 积毁销骨(積毀銷骨) accumulated slander makes one tired to the bone
• 骨灰 bone ash; ashes of the dead
• 听骨链(聽骨鏈) chain of ossicles (in the middle ear)
• 乌骨鸡(烏骨雞) black-boned chicken; silky fowl; silkie
• 骨干(骨幹) backbone; diaphysis (long segment of a bone) ; a structural element; a strut
• 铭心刻骨(銘心刻骨) engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones; to remember a benefactor as long as one lives
• 骨朵 club (ancient stick-like weapon); (flower) bud
• 骨膜 periosteum (membrane covering bone)
• 懒骨头(懶骨頭) lazybones; beanbag
• 骨科 orthopedics; orthopedic surgery
• 头盖骨(頭蓋骨) skull; cranium
• 上颌骨(上頜骨) maxilla; upper jaw
• 肢骨 bones of the hands and feet
• 骨瘦如柴 as thin as a match; emaciated
• 节骨眼(節骨眼) critical junction
• 一骨碌 with a rolling or twisting movement; in a single movement; in one breath
• 骨灰盒 box for bone ashes; funerary casket
• 坐骨 ischium
• 鼻甲骨 turbinate; nasal concha
• 骨都都 for plopping sound
• 耻骨(恥骨) pubis; pubic bone
• 软骨病(軟骨病) chondropathy
• 软骨(軟骨) cartilage
• 遗骨(遺骨) human remains
• 额骨(額骨) frontal bone (forehead)
• 骨痛热症(骨痛熱症) Dengue fever; breakbone fever
• 骨灰龛(骨灰龕) columbarium
• 鸡蛋里挑骨头(雞蛋裡挑骨頭) to look for bones in an egg; to find fault; to nitpick
• 丁骨牛排 T-bone steak
• 骨牌 dominoes
• 骨料 aggregate (sand or gravel used in concrete)
• 戳脊梁骨 to criticize behind somebody's back; back-biting
• 骨子里(骨子裡) beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
• 尸骨(屍骨) skeleton of the dead
• 枕骨 occipital bone
• 筛骨(篩骨) ethmoid bone (cheek)
• 硬骨鱼(硬骨魚) bony fishes; Osteichthyes
• 头骨(頭骨) skull
• 骨关节炎(骨關節炎) osteoarthritis
• 骨瘤 osteoma (benign tumor composed of bone-like material)
• 骸骨 skeleton; skeletal remains
• 骨骼肌 striated muscle
• 下颚骨(下顎骨) mandible; jawbone
• 跗骨 tarsus
• 扁骨 flat bone
• 甲骨文 oracle bone script
• 龙骨(龍骨) keel ; dragon bones ; longgu [medicine]

Also contained in

木骨都束

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 《骨部》 Gǔ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 38
• 卷八十九 南匈奴列傳 Volume 89: Treatise on the Southern Xiongnu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 26
• 第九十回 Chapter 90 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 23
• 卷一百九十四上 列傳第一百四十四上: 突厥上 Volume 194 Biographies 144: Tujie 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 17
• 卷二百一十七下 列傳第一百四十二下 回鶻下 Volume 217b Biographies 142b: Huihu 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 16
• 卷二百一十七上 列傳第一百四十二上 回鶻上 Volume 217a Biographies 142a: Huihu 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 16
• 卷二 　本紀第二:　太祖下 Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 History of Liao 遼史 — count: 16
• 卷四百九十二 列傳第二百五十一 外國八 吐蕃唃廝囉 董氊 阿里骨 瞎征 趙思忠 Volume 492 Biographies 251: Foreign States 8 - Gusiluo of Tubo, Dongzhan, Aligu, Xiazheng, Zhao Sizhong History of Song 宋史 — count: 14
• 卷二百一十五上 列傳第一百四十上 突厥上 Volume 215a Biographies 140a: Tujie 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 14
• 卷一百九十五 列傳第一百四十五: 迴紇 Volume 195 Biographies 145: Huihu Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 13

Collocations

• 暴骨 (暴骨) 今我使二國暴骨 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 17
• 朽骨 (朽骨) 足以朽骨 — Mozi 墨子, 卷六 節葬下 Book 6 - Simplicity in Funerals III — count: 12
• 二骨 (二骨) 正脊二骨 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 特牲馈食礼 第十五 15. Rites of the single victim food offering — count: 9
• 枯骨 (枯骨) 春不收枯骨朽脊 — Guanzi 管子, 度地第五十七 Chapter 57: Crossing Land — count: 8
• 左右骨 (左右骨) 左右骨都侯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《匈奴列傳》 Treatise on the Xiongnu — count: 5
• 死骨 (死骨) 死骨不朽 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十九 趙充國辛慶忌傳 Volume 69: Zhao Chongguo and Xin Qingji — count: 3
• 牛骨 (牛骨) 用牛骨鐕 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 3
• 归骨 (歸骨) 纍臣得歸骨於晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
• 炊骨 (炊骨) 炊骨易子而食之 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷六 復恩 Chapter 6: Repaying Kindness — count: 3
• 右骨 (右骨) 單于果遣右骨都侯當白將率曰 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十四下 匈奴傳 Volume 94b: Traditions of the Xiongnu 2 — count: 3