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see styles

    gu3
ku
 hone
    ほね

More info & calligraphy:

Bones
bone
(1) bone; (2) frame; (3) outline; core; (4) backbone; spirit; fortitude; (noun or adjectival noun) (5) laborious; troublesome; difficult; (personal name) Hone
Bone: bones, relics.

筋骨

see styles
jīn gǔ
    jin1 gu3
chin ku
 kinkotsu; sujibone
    きんこつ; すじぼね
muscles and bones; physique; strength; courage
(1) muscles and bones; body build; physique; (2) (すじぼね only) (See 軟骨・1) cartilage

see styles

    ti1
t`i
    ti
 teki
    てき
to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
cutting

see styles
xìn
    xin4
hsin
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)

see styles

    ta3
t`a
    ta
 tou / to
    とう
pagoda; tower; minaret; stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo); CL:座[zuo4]
(n,n-suf) (1) tower; steeple; spire; (2) (abbreviation) (original meaning) (See 卒塔婆・1,塔婆・1) stupa; pagoda; dagoba; (surname) Tousaki
stūpa; tope; a tumulus, or mound, for the bones, or remains of the dead, or for other sacred relics, especially of the Buddha, whether relics of the body or the mind, e.g. bones or scriptures. As the body is supposed to consist of 84,000 atoms, Aśoka is said to have built 84,000 stūpas to preserve relics of Śākyamuni. Pagodas, dagobas, or towers with an odd number of stories are used in China for the purpose of controlling the geomantic influences of a neighbourbood. Also 塔婆; 兜婆; 偸婆; 藪斗波; 窣堵波; 率都婆; 素覩波; 私鍮簸, etc. The stūpas erected over relics of the Buddha vary from the four at his birthplace, the scene of his enlightenment, of his first sermon, and of his death, to the 84,000 accredited to Aśoka.


see styles
qiào
    qiao4
ch`iao
    chiao
 gara
    がら
variant of 殼|壳[qiao4]
(n,n-pref) (1) (kana only) (See 鶏がら) chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass; (2) (kana only) poor-quality coke (coal); (suffix) (3) (kana only) left-overs; remnants

see styles

    zi4
tzu
rotten meat; bones of dead animal


see styles
tuō
    tuo1
t`o
    to
 datsu
to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from
To take the flesh from the bones; to strip, undress, doff; to escape, avoid; let go, relinquish.


see styles
jiāo
    jiao1
chiao
 nikawa
    にかわ
to glue; glue; gum; rubber
gelatinous glue (usu. from animal and fish bones, hide, etc.)
Glue, gum.

see styles

    zu1
tsu
marshland; swamp; salted or pickled vegetables; to mince; to shred; to mince human flesh and bones; Taiwan pr. [ju1]


see styles
niè
    nie4
nieh
 komekami
    こめかみ
bones of the temple (on the human head); see 顳顬|颞颥, temple
(kana only) temple (of the forehead)


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quán
    quan2
ch`üan
    chüan
cheek bones

see styles
wěi
    wei3
wei
be bent; crooked (of bones)

see styles
xiè
    xie4
hsieh
joint of bones

see styles
hái
    hai2
hai
 kaiji
    かいじ
bones of the body
(dead) body; corpse; shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff; (personal name) Kaiji

see styles

    bi4
pi
 hi
buttocks; thigh
The pelvic bones, the rump.

九想

see styles
jiǔ xiǎng
    jiu3 xiang3
chiu hsiang
 kusō
(九想觀) or 九相 navasaṃjñā. Meditation on a corpse in order to curb desire; one of the meditations on the unclean: vyādhmātakasaṃjñā, its tumefaction; vinīlakas., its blue, mottled colour; vipadumakas., its decay; vilohitakas., its mess of blood,etc.; vipūyakas., its discharges and rotten flesh; vikhāditakas., its being devoured by birds and beasts; vikṣiptakas., its dismembering; asthis., its bones; vidagdhakas., their being burnt and returning to dust.

人骨

see styles
 jinkotsu
    じんこつ
human bones

佛骨

see styles
fó gǔ
    fo2 gu3
fo ku
 bukkotsu
Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic)
A bone of the Buddha, especially the bone against whose reception by the emperor Xianzong the famous protest of Hanyu was made in 819.

入塔

see styles
rù tǎ
    ru4 ta3
ju t`a
    ju ta
 nyuttō
To inter the bones or body of a monk in a dagoba; v. 入骨.

入骨

see styles
rù gǔ
    ru4 gu3
ju ku
 nyū kotsu
To inter the bones (of a monk) in a stūpa, or a grave.

剝皮


剥皮

see styles
bāo pí
    bao1 pi2
pao p`i
    pao pi
 hakuhi
to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1 pi2]
To flay, or peel. In one of the previous incarnations of Śākyamuni he is said to have written a certain gāthā containing the Holy Law on a piece of his own flayed skin with one of his bones split into the shape of a pen, and his blood instead of ink. 智度論 27.

卜辭


卜辞

see styles
bǔ cí
    bu3 ci2
pu tz`u
    pu tzu
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones

卜骨

see styles
bǔ gǔ
    bu3 gu3
pu ku
 bokkotsu
    ぼっこつ
oracle bone
fortune-telling using animal bones

厨子

see styles
 chuushi / chushi
    ちゅうし
(1) miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); (2) cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (3) (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors; (surname) Chuushi

収骨

see styles
 shuukotsu / shukotsu
    しゅうこつ
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) collecting bones and remains (e.g. on a battlefield); (n,vs,vt,vi) (2) putting cremated remains in an urn

囟門


囟门

see styles
xìn mén
    xin4 men2
hsin men
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)

壞法


坏法

see styles
huài fǎ
    huai4 fa3
huai fa
 ehō
Any process of destruction, or decay to burn the bones of a deceased person so that they may not draw him to rebirth.

宗骨

see styles
zōng gǔ
    zong1 gu3
tsung ku
 shūkotsu
The 'bones' or essential tenets of a sect.

小骨

see styles
 kobone
    こぼね
(noun - becomes adjective with の) small bones

廚子


厨子

see styles
chú zi
    chu2 zi5
ch`u tzu
    chu tzu
 zushi
    ずし
cook
(out-dated kanji) (1) miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); (2) cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (3) (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors

手骨

see styles
 shukotsu
    しゅこつ
{anat} bones of the hand

指鬘

see styles
zhǐ mán
    zhi3 man2
chih man
 Shiman
Aṅgulīmālya, name of a convert of Śākyamuni, who had belonged to a Śivaitic sect which wore chaplets of finger-bones, and 'made assassination a religious act'.

掌骨

see styles
zhǎng gǔ
    zhang3 gu3
chang ku
 shoukotsu / shokotsu
    しょうこつ
metacarpal bone (long bones in the hand and feet)
(rare) {anat} (See 中手骨) metacarpal (bone); metacarpus

接ぐ

see styles
 tsugu
    つぐ
(transitive verb) (1) to join; to piece together; to set (bones); (transitive verb) (2) to graft (onto a tree)

摔斷


摔断

see styles
shuāi duàn
    shuai1 duan4
shuai tuan
to fall and break; to break (bones) by falling

撿骨


捡骨

see styles
jiǎn gǔ
    jian3 gu3
chien ku
bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location

擇刺


择刺

see styles
zhái cì
    zhai2 ci4
chai tz`u
    chai tzu
to pick out the bones in a fish

收骨

see styles
shōu gǔ
    shou1 gu3
shou ku
 shukotsu
To collect the bones, or relics, after cremation.

故骨

see styles
gù gǔ
    gu4 gu3
ku ku
Old bones, bones of a former incarnation or generation.

正肉

see styles
 shouniku / shoniku
    しょうにく
meat (esp. chicken) without bones, skin or excess fat

洗骨

see styles
 senkotsu
    せんこつ
(See 厨子・3) washing of cremated bones before placing them in a funerary urn (esp. in Okinawa)

焼骨

see styles
 shoukotsu / shokotsu
    しょうこつ
(noun/participle) (1) cremation; (2) (See 遺骨・1) ashes (of a cremated person); cremated bones

獣骨

see styles
 juukotsu / jukotsu
    じゅうこつ
animal bones

甲骨

see styles
jiǎ gǔ
    jia3 gu3
chia ku
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones

白湯


白汤

see styles
bái tāng
    bai2 tang1
pai t`ang
    pai tang
 paitan
    パイタン
clear soup; white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤[nai3 tang1]; decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
(kana only) {food} white broth (esp. for ramen) (chi: báitāng); broth without soy sauce (made by simmering bones); (female given name) Sayu

白骨

see styles
bái gǔ
    bai2 gu3
pai ku
 hakkotsu
    はっこつ
bones of the dead
white (bleached) bone; skeleton; (place-name) Hakkotsu (onsen near Kamikouchi)

納骨


纳骨

see styles
nà gǔ
    na4 gu3
na ku
 noukotsu / nokotsu
    のうこつ
(n,vs,vi) placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); interring ashes
To bury bones, or a skeleton.

老身

see styles
 roushin / roshin
    ろうしん
old bones; aged body; advanced age

老躯

see styles
 rouku / roku
    ろうく
one's old bones; aged body

老骨

see styles
 roukotsu / rokotsu
    ろうこつ
one's old bones; old man

聖骨

see styles
 seikotsu / sekotsu
    せいこつ
saint's bones; sacred bones

肌骨

see styles
 kikotsu
    きこつ
skin and bones

腿骨

see styles
 taikotsu
    たいこつ
(rare) bones of the upper and lower leg

舍利

see styles
shè lì
    she4 li4
she li
 shari
ashes after cremation; Buddhist relics (Sanskirt: sarira)
(1) śārī, śārikā; a bird able to talk, intp. variously, but, M. W. says the mynah. Śārikā was the name of Śāriputra's mother, because her eyes were bright and clever like those of a mynah; there are other interpretation (2) śarīra(m). 設利羅 (or 室利羅); 實利; 攝 M004215 藍 Relics or ashes left after the cremation of a buddha or saint; placed in stupas and worhipped. The white represent bones; the black, hair; and the red, flesh. Also called dhātu-śarīra or dharma-śarīra. The body, a dead body. The body looked upon as dead by reason of obedience to the discipline, meditation, and wisdom. The Lotus Sutra and other sutras are counted as relics, Śākyamuni's relics are said to have amounted to 八斛四斗 84 pecks, for which Aśoka is reputed to have built in one day 84,000 stupas; but other figures are also given. śarīra is also intp. by grains of rice, etc., and by rice as food.

舎利

see styles
 shari; sari
    しゃり; さり
(1) {Buddh} bones left after cremation (esp. those of a Buddha or Boddhisatva); (2) (しゃり only) (See しゃり) grain of rice; cooked rice; (female given name) Shari

菹醢

see styles
zū hǎi
    zu1 hai3
tsu hai
to execute sb and mince his flesh and bones (archaic form of retribution)

豚骨

see styles
 tonkotsu
    とんこつ
dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

足骨

see styles
 sokkotsu; ashibone
    そっこつ; あしぼね
(1) (rare) bones of the feet; (2) the strength of one's feet

身骨

see styles
shēn gǔ
    shen1 gu3
shen ku
 shinkotsu
bones

遺骨


遗骨

see styles
yí gǔ
    yi2 gu3
i ku
 ikotsu
    いこつ
(dead) human remains
(1) cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes; (2) remains (of war dead)
remains

金骨

see styles
jīn gǔ
    jin1 gu3
chin ku
 kinkotsu
Golden bones, i.e. Buddha's relics.

靈骨


灵骨

see styles
líng gǔ
    ling2 gu3
ling ku
Spirit-bones, Buddha-relics.

骨子

see styles
gǔ zi
    gu3 zi5
ku tzu
 kosshi
    こっし
ribs; frame
main point; gist; essentials; bones (e.g. of an idea); pith; (given name) Kosshi

骨燼


骨烬

see styles
gǔ jìn
    gu3 jin4
ku chin
bones and ashes; remains (after Buddhist cremation)

骨目

see styles
gǔ mù
    gu3 mu4
ku mu
The bones and eyes, the essentials.

骨節


骨节

see styles
gǔ jié
    gu3 jie2
ku chieh
 honebushi; kossetsu
    ほねぶし; こっせつ
joint (of the skeleton)
(See 骨っ節・1) joint (between bones)

骨身

see styles
gǔ shēn
    gu3 shen1
ku shen
 honemi
    ほねみ
flesh and bones
The bones of the body, the śarīra or remains after cremation.

骨骸

see styles
gǔ hái
    gu3 hai2
ku hai
 kokkai
bones; skeleton
skeleton

骨骼

see styles
gǔ gé
    gu3 ge2
ku ko
 kokkaku
    こっかく
bones; skeleton
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) skeleton; skeletal structure; build; frame; physique; (2) framework

髐骨

see styles
 gyoukotsu / gyokotsu
    ぎょうこつ
(1) (archaism) dry bones; skeleton; (2) (archaism) wasting away

鳥殻

see styles
 torigara
    とりがら
chicken bones; chicken carcass

鶏殻

see styles
 torigara
    とりがら
chicken bones; chicken carcass

龍骨


龙骨

see styles
lóng gǔ
    long2 gu3
lung ku
"dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM); breastbone (of a bird); keel (of a ship)

龍魚

see styles
 ryuugyo / ryugyo
    りゅうぎょ
(See 蝶鮫) dragon-like cryptid fish with many whiskers and no bones (likely a sturgeon)

乳突竇


乳突窦

see styles
rǔ tū dòu
    ru3 tu1 dou4
ju t`u tou
    ju tu tou
mastoid antrum (bones at the back of tympanic chamber)

人藥王


人药王

see styles
rén yào wáng
    ren2 yao4 wang2
jen yao wang
 ninyakuō
Human-touch healing prince, i.e. Śākyamuni in a previous incarnation, whose touch healed all diseases, as did the application of his powdered bones after his decease in that incarnation.

再葬墓

see styles
 saisoubo / saisobo
    さいそうぼ
secondary grave (usu. for disinterred and washed bones); reburial grave

厨子甕

see styles
 zushigame
    ずしがめ
(called じ〜しか〜み or じ〜しが〜み in Okinawa) (See 厨子・3) decorated pottery container for storing the bones of one's ancestors (Okinawa)

囟腦門


囟脑门

see styles
xìn nǎo mén
    xin4 nao3 men2
hsin nao men
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)

担鰭骨

see styles
 tankikotsu
    たんきこつ
bones supporting the fins of a fish

排骨精

see styles
pái gǔ jīng
    pai2 gu3 jing1
p`ai ku ching
    pai ku ching
(jocular) anorexic girl; a bag of bones

楔状骨

see styles
 ketsujoukotsu; setsujoukotsu / ketsujokotsu; setsujokotsu
    けつじょうこつ; せつじょうこつ
(1) (けつじょうこつ only) {anat} cuneiform (bones); (2) {anat} (See 蝶形骨) sphenoid (bone)

糯米臀

see styles
nuò mǐ tún
    nuo4 mi3 tun2
no mi t`un
    no mi tun
lazy bones (dialect)

足根骨

see styles
 sokkonkotsu
    そっこんこつ
tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

骨っ節

see styles
 honeppushi
    ほねっぷし
(1) joint (between bones); (2) backbone; spirit

骨と皮

see styles
 honetokawa
    ほねとかわ
(exp,adj-no) skin and bones

骨切り

see styles
 honekiri
    ほねきり
(1) osteotomy; (2) finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones

骨噛み

see styles
 honekami
    ほねかみ
(noun/participle) eating bones; gnawing on a bone; osteophagy

骨煎餅

see styles
 honesenbei / honesenbe
    ほねせんべい
deep fried fish bones (snack food)

骨髓腔

see styles
gǔ suǐ qiāng
    gu3 sui3 qiang1
ku sui ch`iang
    ku sui chiang
marrow cavity (in long bones)

鳥がら

see styles
 torigara
    とりがら
chicken bones; chicken carcass

鶏がら

see styles
 torigara
    とりがら
chicken bones; chicken carcass

リギング

see styles
 rigingu
    リギング
(1) rigging (a ship, aircraft, etc.); (2) rigging; gear; tackle; (3) rigging; in animation, a hierarchy of virtual skeletal bones

冷え込む

see styles
 hiekomu
    ひえこむ
(v5m,vi) (1) to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold); (v5m,vi) (2) to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones; (v5m,vi) (3) to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)

分陀利迦

see styles
fēn tuó lì jiā
    fen1 tuo2 li4 jia1
fen t`o li chia
    fen to li chia
 fundarika
(also see 分陀利) puṇḍarīka, 芬陀; 分荼利迦, 分荼利華, 奔荼利迦, 奔荼利華; 本拏哩迦; the 白蓮花 white lotus (in full bloom). It is also termed 百葉華 (or 八葉華) hundred (or eight) leaf flower. For Saddharma-puṇḍarīka, the Lotus Sutra, v. 妙法蓮華經. The eighth and coldest hell is called after this flower, because the cold lays bare the bones of the wicked, so that they resemble the whiteness of this lotus. It is also called 隨色花; when a bud, it is known as 屈摩羅; and when fading, as 迦摩羅.

刻骨銘心


刻骨铭心

see styles
kè gǔ míng xīn
    ke4 gu3 ming2 xin1
k`o ku ming hsin
    ko ku ming hsin
lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom); fig. etched in one's memory; unforgettable

塚中枯骨


冢中枯骨

see styles
zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ
    zhong3 zhong1 ku1 gu3
chung chung k`u ku
    chung chung ku ku
dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried

央掘摩羅


央掘摩罗

see styles
yāng jué mó luó
    yang1 jue2 mo2 luo2
yang chüeh mo lo
 Ōkutsumara
(央掘); 央仇魔羅; 央崛鬘; 盎崛利摩羅 (or 鴦崛利摩羅) (or 鴦窶利摩羅) Aṇgulimālya, Śivaitic fanatics who ' made assassination a religious act', and wore finger-bones as a chaplet. One who had assassinated 999, and was about to assassinate his mother for the thousandth, is said to have been then converted by the Buddha.

情同骨肉

see styles
qíng tóng gǔ ròu
    qing2 tong2 gu3 rou4
ch`ing t`ung ku jou
    ching tung ku jou
as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

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