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skeleton / skinny person / a mere skeleton
to suffer a fracture / (of a bone) to break / fracture
HSK 7-9
lit. interrelated as bones and flesh (idiom); inseparably related / closely intertwined
orthopedics / orthopedic surgery
piercing / cutting / bone-chilling / penetrating (cold)
HSK 7-9
parietal bone (top of the scull)
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
cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone
columbarium
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
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
beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
bones / skeleton
as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
pelvic floor (anatomy)
ischium
box for bone ashes / funerary casket
occipital bone (back of the skull)
blatant / unsubtle / frank / (of sex, violence etc) explicit
scapula / shoulder blade
(idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated
pork chop / pork cutlet / spare ribs / (coll.) skinny person
dominoes
bone / CL: , 塊|块 / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
HSK 4
pubis / pubic bone
humerus
spine
to be extremely cold or painful
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory / unforgettable
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
collagen (protein)
deep-seated lovesickness (idiom)
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
kneecap
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
osteoporosis
striated muscle
pubic bone
stupa (Buddhist shrine)
to criticize behind sb's back / back-biting
coot
to be all skin and bones (idiom) / also written 皮包骨
lumbar vertebrae
to roll rapidly; to spin / Taiwan pr. [gu2lu5]
hyperostosis (abnormal thickening of bone)
vertebra
to the bone / to the marrow / fig. to a very large degree
feelings deeper than for one's own flesh and blood (idiom) / deep friendship
vertebra
bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy
weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)
backbone
(anatomy) sacrum
bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
osteoarthritis
dominoes
gristle
bone fracture / (of a bone) to fracture
Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic)
bony; skinny
T-bone steak
bones of the dead
sternum / breastbone
(literary) emaciated; bony
bone meal
(coll.) flower bud
chop / rib meat
bitter hatred / hatred that cuts to the bone
lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
aggregate (sand or gravel used in concrete 混凝土)
bone ash / cremation ashes; cremains
domino effect / ripple effect
flesh and blood / one's offspring
lit. the dead returning to life / a miracle (idiom)
femur
columbarium
ruthless / vicious and greedy
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
temporal bone / os temporale
unyielding character / courageous spirit / integrity / moral backbone
HSK 7-9
coccyx / tailbone
cytoskeleton (of a cell)
chondropathy (medicine)
bone black / animal charcoal
(zoology) exoskeleton
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
skinny; emaciated (idiom)
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)
posture / upright posture

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