Chinese symbol for “bones”
骨骼
gǔ gé
bones; skeleton
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bones is 骨骼 (gǔ gé), defined as: bones; skeleton.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bones”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 骨骼.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨头 (骨頭) | gǔ tou | bone; measure word: 根 (gēn), 块 (kuài) |
| 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 |
| 头骨 (頭骨) | tóu gǔ | skull |
| 骨灰 | gǔ huī | bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains |
| 骨骼肌 | gǔ gé jī | striated muscle |
| 外骨骼 | wài gǔ gé | (zoology) exoskeleton; wearable exoskeleton designed to assist or enhance physical movement |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bones”.
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.