Chinese symbol for “bone”
骨头
gǔ tou
Traditional: 骨頭
bone; measure word: 根 (gēn), 块 (kuài); moral character; bitterness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bone is 骨头 (gǔ tou), defined as: bone; measure word: 根 (gēn), 块 (kuài); moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5].
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “bone”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨 | gǔ | bone |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 骨头.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨干 (骨幹) | gǔ gàn | diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone |
| 骨折 | gǔ zhé | to suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break |
| 骨骼 | gǔ gé | bones; skeleton |
| 头骨 (頭骨) | tóu gǔ | skull |
| 骨灰 | gǔ huī | bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains |
| 头发 (頭髮) | tóu fa | hair (on the head) |
| 街头 (街頭) | jiē tóu | street |
| 镜头 (鏡頭) | jìng tóu | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bone”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.