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bone / CL: , 塊|块 / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
HSK 4
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
(dialect) critical juncture / crucial moment / Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3]
zygomatic bone (cheek bone)
pubis / pubic bone
parietal bone (top of the scull)
unyielding character / courageous spirit / integrity / moral backbone
HSK 7-9
reinforced concrete
orthopedics / orthopedic surgery
lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism
one's own flesh and blood
frontal bone (forehead)
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
backbone / mainstay / pillar / definite view / one's own judgment
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear
(medicine) bone age
maxilla (upper jaw)
skull
to hate sb to the bone (idiom)
to debone / (of meat or fish) boneless
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
lofty and unyielding character
resolute individual / a hard nut to crack / tough mission / difficult task
elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus)
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
collarbone / clavicle
cytoskeleton (of a cell)
yellow bone marrow
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
(old) (idiom) muddled; indecisive; plodding
bones / skeleton
as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship
weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)
backbone network
pelvic floor (anatomy)
water wheel
lower jaw / mandible
ischium
box for bone ashes / funerary casket
occipital bone (back of the skull)
blatant / unsubtle / frank / (of sex, violence etc) explicit
bony fishes / Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)
scapula / shoulder blade
(idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated
sciatic nerve
pork chop / pork cutlet / spare ribs / (coll.) skinny person
dominoes
domino effect / ripple effect
lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory / unforgettable
dominoes
humerus
spine
(dialect) veteran actor / old trouper
weak, cowardly person / spineless individual
(idiom) (of character) staunch; unyielding
to be extremely cold or painful
bone formation / osteogenesis
ankle bone / ankle
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
deep-seated lovesickness (idiom)
skeleton of the dead
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
blood relation / kin / one's flesh and blood
striated muscle
kneecap / patella
pubic bone
stupa (Buddhist shrine)
lazybones / beanbag
to criticize behind sb's back / back-biting
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
lumbar vertebrae
skull / cranium
to roll rapidly; to spin / Taiwan pr. [gu2lu5]
hyperostosis (abnormal thickening of bone)
collagen (protein)
vertebra
feelings deeper than for one's own flesh and blood (idiom) / deep friendship
vertebra
bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy
(anatomy) thyroid cartilage
backbone
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)
skeleton / skinny person / a mere skeleton
joint (of the skeleton)
gristle
cartilage
strength of character / vigorous style (of calligraphy)
bone fracture / (of a bone) to fracture
Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic)
bony; skinny
T-bone steak
bone chilling wind (idiom)
bones of the dead

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