字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE粹1306 合3236 賓組
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The oracle bone and bronze stages show 冎, not 骨 itself.
部首Radical · in Human Body & People
骨
骨 bone
ほね hone
10 strokesRadical of 3 kanjiPart of 3
Your ink in 骨0% painted · 0 of 3 familiar
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound形聲
冎 is the original pictogram for this character; 肉 was added later to distinguish.
Built from 冎 (sound) + 肉 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 骨 (rev. 92717163), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The foundation of the body! This radical represents the core structure, the enduring skeleton, and the hidden strength that supports us from within. When you see it, think of bones, physical frames, and the "backbone" of any situation or structure. It brings a sense of absolute structural integrity, deep-seated substance, and the "bare bones" truth to any character it joins.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates physical bones, the skeleton, core structures, the essence or "marrow" of a thing, or the concept of durability and strength.
一覧
Every kanji with 骨 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 3 kanji