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bone / CL: , 塊|块 / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
HSK 4
to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone)
HSK 6
to suffer a fracture / (of a bone) to break / fracture
HSK 7-9
diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone
HSK 7-9
piercing / cutting / bone-chilling / penetrating (cold)
HSK 7-9
to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone)
zygomatic bone (cheek bone)
pubis / pubic bone
parietal bone (top of the scull)
lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism
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  *剔* | 剔* | *剔
to scrape the meat from bones / to pick (teeth etc) / to weed out
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  *腿* | 腿* | *腿
hip bone / old variant of
HSK 2
frontal bone (forehead)
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
(idiom) unwilling to let go / like a dog with a bone / dogged
stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear
(medicine) bone age
to hate sb to the bone (idiom)
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  *骸* | 骸* | *骸
bones of the body
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
lit. with calluses on hands and feet (idiom) / fig. to work one's fingers to the bone
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  *叼* | 叼* | *叼
to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)
HSK 7-9
yellow bone marrow
bones / skeleton
as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship
box for bone ashes / funerary casket
occipital bone (back of the skull)
lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory / unforgettable
bone formation / osteogenesis
ankle bone / ankle
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  *折* | 折* | *折
to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
mastoid antrum (bones at the back of tympanic chamber)
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
pubic bone
ossicles (of the middle ear) / three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)
hyperostosis (abnormal thickening of bone)
metatarsal bones; metatarsus
malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
manubrium of malleus (handle of hammer bone), connecting ossicles 聽小骨|听小骨 to tympanum 鼓膜
bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
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  *鲠* | 鲠* | *鲠
to choke on a piece of food / (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat
bone fracture / (of a bone) to fracture
Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic)
T-bone steak
bone chilling wind (idiom)
bones of the dead
bone meal
bitter hatred / hatred that cuts to the bone
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
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  *桡* | 桡* | *桡
radius (anatomy) / bone of the forearm
lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
bone ash / cremation ashes; cremains
internal auditory meatus (canal in temporal bone of skull housing auditory nerves)
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly / to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
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  *謋* | 謋* | *謋
sound of flesh being separated from the bone
etched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment)
cheek bone / zygomatic arch (anatomy)
bone black / animal charcoal
"dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM) / breastbone (of a bird) / keel (of a ship)
etched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment)
bone marrow
oracle bone
flat bone
bones and ashes / remains (after Buddhist cremation)
metacarpal bone (long bones in the hand and feet)
ethmoid bone (cheek)
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly
fibula / calf bone
bone structure and physiognomy / the strength observed in brushstrokes (Chinese calligraphy)
lit. interrelated as bones and flesh (idiom); inseparably related / closely intertwined
lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom) / fig. very upset and needing to express one's displeasure
tiger bone (used in TCM)
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  *骨* | 骨* | *骨
bone
(medicine) bone marrow transplant
pubic bone
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried
vomer bone (in the nose, dividing the nostrils)
bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location
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  *牼* | 牼* | *牼
shank bone of ox
gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O) / plaster / plaster cast (for a broken bone)
hip bone
red bone marrow; hematopoietic marrow
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  *颧* | 颧* | *颧
cheek bones
to execute sb and mince his flesh and bones (archaic form of retribution)
luosifen (rice noodles served in a broth made from river snails and pork bones, often seasoned with stinky fermented bamboo shoots)
bones / skeleton
(physiognomy) protruding bone at the back of the head, regarded as a sign of a renegade nature
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  *腄* | 腄* | *腄
callus on the hand or foot / upper leg bone of horse or bird / buttocks
osteogenesis imperfecta (OI); brittle bone disease
cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone
lit. etched into one's heart and bones (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory; remembered with gratitude as long as one lives
spicule (in biology) / bone needle (in archaeology)
to look for bones in an egg / to find fault / to nitpick (idiom)
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  *髂* | 髂* | *髂
ilium / outermost bone of the pelvic girdle / Taiwan pr. [ka4]

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