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骨 kanji
skeleton, bone, remains, frame
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
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On readings
コツ
Kun readings
ほね
Words with 骨
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —骨骼skeleton; skeletal structure; build; frame; physique; framework
- —薦骨sacrum; sacral bone
- —龍骨keel (of a ship); Fossilia ossis mastodi (traditional Chinese medicine); dragon bone; longgu
- —骨張height; pinnacle
- —骨壺funerary urn; cinerary urn; burial urn; cremation urn
- —骨揚ceremony of transferring the cremated bones of a family member to an urn
- —武骨boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
- —叛骨rebellious spirit; defiant attitude
- —頸骨neckbones
- —鐙骨stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes
- —座骨ischium; ischial bone
- —軽骨indiscreet; thoughtless; absurd; laughable; disdaining; belittling
- —御骨cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
- —骨篦bone trowel (Jōmon period); bone spatula
- —がい骨skeleton
- —頭骸骨skull; cranium
- —武骨者boor; rustic; country bumpkin; lout
- —とう骨radius
- —肩胛骨shoulder blade; scapula
- —ろっ骨rib; frame (of a ship)