漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
骸: bone, body
Also: corpse
N1 (our estimate)16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
骨 carries the meaning · 亥 is drawn in
16 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ガイgai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 骸骨がいこつ
- 形骸けいがい(soulless) body
- 死骸しがい(dead) body; corpse; carcass
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 亡骸なきがらremains; corpse; (dead) body
Also read カイ, むくろ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bone (骨) + disaster/sign (亥). The skeletal remains of a "bone" structure after a long time or a "disaster"—representing a corpse or the ruins of a building.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亥
Also built on sign of the hog (亥)
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hái
Same form: 骸 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 骸 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 骸 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hái most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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