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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
- —枯骨remaining bones after decay of a corpse; a person's weathered bones; dead person; the deceased
- —骨箆bone trowel (Jōmon period); bone spatula
- —骨導bone conduction
- —骨湯fish-bone soup (made by pouring boiling water on fish bones and seasoning it with soy or salt)
- —肩骨shoulder blade; scapula
- —骨組織bony tissue
- —頭蓋骨skull; cranium
- —膝蓋骨kneecap; patella
- —無骨者boor; rustic; country bumpkin; lout
- —肩甲骨shoulder blade; scapula
- —大腿骨thighbone; femur
- —骨肉腫osteosarcoma
- —骨拾いgathering up the ashes of the deceased
- —骨相学phrenology
- —骨格筋skeletal muscle
- —骨上げceremony of transferring the cremated bones of a family member to an urn
- —骨膜炎periostitis
- —骨髄炎osteomyelitis
- —頭頂骨parietal bone
- —真骨頂one's true worth; one's true self; what one is really made of