Chinese symbol for “skeleton”
骸骨
hái gǔ
skeleton; skeletal remains
The closest CC-CEDICT match for skeleton is 骸骨 (hái gǔ), defined as: skeleton; skeletal remains.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “skeleton”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨骼 | gǔ gé | bones; skeleton |
| 骨架 | gǔ jià | framework; skeleton |
| 尸骸 (屍骸) | shī hái | corpse; skeleton |
| 骨头架子 (骨頭架子) | gǔ tou jià zi | skeleton; skinny person |
| 骨骸 | gǔ hái | bones; skeleton |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 骸骨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 残骸 (殘骸) | cán hái | remains; wreckage |
| 遗骸 (遺骸) | yí hái | (dead) human remains |
| 尸骸 (屍骸) | shī hái | corpse; skeleton |
| 骨骸 | gǔ hái | bones; skeleton |
| 放浪形骸 | fàng làng xíng hái | to abandon all restraint (idiom) |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “skeleton”.
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.