Kanji1 / 10
骨 kanji
skeleton, bone, remains, frame
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
コツ
Kun readings
ほね
Words with 骨
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —骨炎osteitis
- —骨油bone oil; clarified bone stock
- —骨学osteology
- —骨堂charnel house; ossuary
- —長骨long bone
- —洗骨washing of cremated bones before placing them in a funerary urn (esp. in Okinawa)
- —方骨quadrate bone
- —歯骨dentary bone; dentary
- —跟骨calcaneus; calcaneum; heel bone
- —骨疽caries
- —聖骨saint's bones; sacred bones
- —心骨body and soul; mind and body; bottom of one's heart; depth of one's heart
- —骨量bone quantity; bone mass
- —骨瓶funerary urn
- —焼骨cremation; ashes (of a cremated person); cremated bones
- —お骨cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
- —牛骨beef bone (used to make stock); cattle bone; bovine bone
- —狂骨ghostly skeletal old man who emerges from wells (Japanese folklore)
- —仮骨callus
- —骨器bone tool; horn implement