Chinese symbol for “bony”
嶙峋
lín xún
bony (of people); craggy; rugged (of terrain); upright (of people)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bony is 嶙峋 (lín xún), defined as: bony (of people); craggy; rugged (of terrain); upright (of people).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bony”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨感 | gǔ gǎn | bony; skinny |
| 瘦骨棱棱 | shòu gǔ léng léng | bony; skinny |
| 骨立 | gǔ lì | (literary) emaciated; bony |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 嶙峋.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瘦骨嶙峋 | shòu gǔ lín xún | skinny; emaciated (idiom) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bony”.
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.