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Trad. 龍骨
- "dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM)
- breastbone (of a bird)
- keel (of a ship)
Trad. 撿骨
- 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
- incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
- (physiognomy) protruding bone at the back of the head, regarded as a sign of a renegade nature
- club (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip)
- (flower) bud
- bone structure and physiognomy
- the strength observed in brushstrokes (Chinese calligraphy)
- tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
- bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
Trad. 骨頭
- bone
- CL:根[gen1],塊|块[kuai4]
- moral character
- bitterness
- Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
Trad. 鐙骨
- stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear
Trad. 骨鯁
- fish bone
- bone stuck in the throat
- sth one feels obliged to speak out about
- candid speaker
Trad. 龍骨瓣
- (botany) carina; keel (of a papilionaceous flower)
Trad. 烏骨雞
- black-boned chicken
- silky fowl
- silkie
- Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
Trad. 老骨頭
- weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)
- White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4])
- (fig.) sly and cunning person
Trad. 硬骨頭
- resolute individual
- a hard nut to crack
- tough mission
- difficult task
Trad. 硬骨魚
- bony fishes
- Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)
- bak-kut-teh or pork ribs soup, popular in Malaysia and Singapore
Trad. 骨子裡
- beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
- oracle script
- oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
- (onom.) rolling around; spinning
- also pr. [gu1lu1lu1]
- Taiwan pr. [gu2lu4lu5]
- with a rolling or twisting movement
- in a single movement; in one breath
Trad. 骨頂雞
- (bird species of China) Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Trad. 錘骨柄
- manubrium of malleus (handle of hammer bone), connecting ossicles 聽小骨|听小骨 to tympanum 鼓膜
Trad. 聽小骨
- ossicles (of the middle ear)
- three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
Trad. 節骨眼
- (dialect) critical juncture
- crucial moment
- Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3]
- Chinese name for African kingdom in Somalia, cf Mogadishu 摩加迪沙
Trad. 粘皮帶骨
- (old) (idiom) muddled; indecisive; plodding
Trad. 塚中枯骨
- dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried
Trad. 粘皮著骨
- see 粘皮帶骨|粘皮带骨[nian2 pi2 dai4 gu3]
- lit. like maggots feeding on a corpse (idiom)
- fig. fixed on sth
- to cling on without letting go
- to pester obstinately
Trad. 軟骨魚類
- cartilaginous fishes
- Chondrichthyes (taxonomic class including sharks and rays)
Trad. 哀毀骨立
- (idiom) (literary) to become emaciated due to grief (usu. due to the death of a parent)
Trad. 傷筋動骨
- to suffer serious injury (idiom)
Trad. 傷筋斷骨
- to suffer serious injury (idiom)
- as close as flesh and bones (idiom); deep friendship
- the eight methods of bonesetting
- Chinese osteopathy
Trad. 刻骨銘心
- lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom)
- fig. etched in one's memory
- unforgettable
Trad. 鐵骨錚錚
- (idiom) (of character) staunch; unyielding