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

• 甲骨文 oracle bone script
• 阿史那骨咄禄(阿史那骨咄祿) Ashina Qutlugh
• 多发性骨髓瘤(多發性骨髓瘤) multiple myeloma
• 下颌骨(下頜骨) lower jaw; mandible
• 恨之入骨 to hate somebody to the bone
• 泽及枯骨(澤及枯骨) so kind as to even bury stray bones; kindness extending to all things
• 骨胶原(骨膠原) collagen (protein)
• 佛骨 a Buddha relic
• 上颌骨(上頜骨) maxilla; upper jaw
• 情同骨肉 as close as flesh and bones; deep friendship
• 肌骨 body
• 丁骨牛排 T-bone steak
• 骨膜 periosteum (membrane covering bone)
• 纳骨塔(納骨塔) columbarium
• 蹠骨 metatarsal bones; metatarsus
• 脸颊骨(臉頰骨) cheek bone
• 骨牌效应(骨牌效應) domino effect; ripple effect
• 扁骨 flat bone
• 骨痛热症(骨痛熱症) Dengue fever; breakbone fever
• 刻骨铭心(刻骨銘心) carved in bones and engraved in the heart; etched in one's memory; unforgettable
• 骨肉相残(骨肉相殘) close kindred slaughter one another; internecine strife
• 骨刻 carving in bone
• 骨炭 bone black; animal charcoal
• 桡骨(橈骨) radius ; bone of the forearm
• 骨髓腔 marrow cavity (in long bones)
• 踝骨 ankle bone; ankle
• 如蛆附骨 like maggots feeding on a corpse; fixed on something; to cling on without letting go
• 甲骨文字 oracle script; oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
• 骨质疏松(骨質疏鬆) osteoporosis
• 露骨 blatant; unsubtle; frank; (of sex, violence etc) explicit
• 正骨 bone setting; Chinese osteopathy
• 稀松骨质(稀鬆骨質) cancellous bone; trabecular bone; spongy bone
• 骨牌 dominoes
• 耻骨(恥骨) pubis; pubic bone
• 肱骨 humerus
• 戳脊梁骨 to criticize behind somebody's back; back-biting
• 骨碌碌 rolling around; spinning
• 骨灰龛(骨灰龕) columbarium
• 腰骨 lumbar vertebrae
• 颅骨(顱骨) skull
• 鼻甲骨 turbinate; nasal concha
• 骨关节炎(骨關節炎) osteoarthritis
• 鸡蛋里挑骨头(雞蛋裡挑骨頭) to look for bones in an egg; to find fault; to nitpick
• 骨肉 blood relation; kin; flesh and blood ; bones and flesh
• 顶骨(頂骨) parietal bone (top of the scull)
• 铭心镂骨(銘心鏤骨) engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones; to remember a benefactor as long as one lives
• 膝盖骨(膝蓋骨) kneecap
• 虎骨 tiger bone (used in TCM)
• 主心骨 backbone; mainstay; pillar; definite view; one's own judgment
• 积毁销骨(積毀銷骨) accumulated slander makes one tired to the bone

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木骨都束

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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 　本紀第二:　太祖下 Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 History of Liao 遼史 — count: 16
• 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
• 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: 4
• 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
• 五骨 (五骨) 南单于所获北虏薁鞬左贤王将其众及南部五骨都侯合三万余人畔归 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十九 南匈奴列傳 Volume 89: Treatise on the Southern Xiongnu — 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
• 槁骨 (槁骨) 是譽槁骨也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十一 耕柱 Book 11 - Geng Zhu — count: 3