骨 — skeleton, bone, remains

ほね骨 skeleton

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes body

U+9AA8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #936 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1383 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #188

Meanings

skeleton
bone
remains
frame

word

ほね hone Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

骨(ほね) hone bone

こつ kotsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

鉄(てっ) 骨(こつ) tekkotsu steel frame 露(ろ) 骨(こつ) rokotsu blatant 骨(こつ) 髄(ずい) kotsuzui bone marrow 骸(がい) 骨(こつ) gaikotsu skeleton

こっ ko Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

骨(こっ) 折(せつ) kossetsu bone fracture 骨(こっ) 格(かく) kokkaku skeleton

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つき月 month #74

Used as component in (3)

すべる滑 slippery ずい髄 marrow がい骸 bone

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#188 骨 bone