| | bone / CL: 根, 塊|块 / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5] | HSK 4 |
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| | to suffer a fracture / (of a bone) to break / fracture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone | HSK 7-9 |
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| | unyielding character / courageous spirit / integrity / moral backbone | HSK 7-9 |
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| | piercing / cutting / bone-chilling / penetrating (cold) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pork chop / pork cutlet / spare ribs / (coll.) skinny person | |
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| | collarbone / clavicle | |
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| | spur / bony outgrowth | |
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| | (Chinese calligraphy) vigor of brushstrokes / fortitude; toughness; spine | |
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| | skull | |
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| | dominoes | |
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| | White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person | |
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| | flesh and blood / one's offspring | |
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| | elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus) | |
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| | bone ash / cremation ashes; cremains | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | bones / skeleton | |
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| | orthopedics / orthopedic surgery | |
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| | bones of the dead | |
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| | ischium | |
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| | "dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM) / breastbone (of a bird) / keel (of a ship) | |
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| | (physiognomy) protruding bone at the back of the head, regarded as a sign of a renegade nature | |
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| | muscles and bones / physique / strength / courage | |
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| | to be all skin and bones (idiom) / also written 皮包骨 | |
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| | bone | |
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| | beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level | |
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| | framework / skeleton | |
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| | skull (of a dead body) | |
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| | to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly / to create from other material (story, artwork etc) | |
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| | lazybones / beanbag | |
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| | sternum / breastbone | |
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| | skeleton of the dead | |
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| | skeleton / skinny person / a mere skeleton | |
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| | cartilage | |
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| | skull / cranium | |
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| | to criticize behind sb's back / back-biting | |
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| | joint (of the skeleton) | |
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| | to suffer serious injury (idiom) | |
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| | posture / upright posture | |
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| | lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory / unforgettable | |
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| | vertebra | |
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| | kneecap / patella | |
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| | radius (anatomy) / bone of the forearm | |
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| | resolute individual / a hard nut to crack / tough mission / difficult task | |
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| | scapula / shoulder blade | |
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| | striated muscle | |
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| | to the bone / to the marrow / fig. to a very large degree | |
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| | to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold | |
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| | columbarium | |
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| | zygomatic bone (cheek bone) | |
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| | black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson | |
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| | sciatic nerve | |
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| | (onom.) rolling around; spinning / also pr. [gu1lu1lu1] / Taiwan pr. [gu2lu4lu5] | |
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| | (dialect) critical juncture / crucial moment / Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3] | |
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| | weak, cowardly person / spineless individual | |
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| | box for bone ashes / funerary casket | |
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| | bone chilling wind (idiom) | |
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| | to look for bones in an egg / to find fault / to nitpick (idiom) | |
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| | backbone | |
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| | one's own flesh and blood | |
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| | blood relation / kin / one's flesh and blood | |
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| | reinforced concrete | |
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| | tiger bone (used in TCM) | |
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| | metatarsal bones; metatarsus | |
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| | chondropathy (medicine) | |
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| | lit. etched into one's heart and bones (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory; remembered with gratitude as long as one lives | |
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| | lofty and unyielding character | |
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| | occipital bone (back of the skull) | |
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| | frontal bone (forehead) | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨 | |
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| | bony; skinny | |
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| | bony fishes / Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish) | |
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| | urn | |
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| | temporal bone / os temporale | |
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| | metacarpal bone (long bones in the hand and feet) | |
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| | weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently) | |
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| | sphenoid bone (front of the temple) | |
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| | bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy | |
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| | lit. interrelated as bones and flesh (idiom); inseparably related / closely intertwined | |
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| | (literary) emaciated; bony | |
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| | backbone | |
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| | pubic bone | |
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| | rib | |
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| | bone marrow | |
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| | miserable wretch / contemptible individual | |
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| | skeletal remains / Taiwan pr. [gu3 zhi2] | |
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| | lower jaw / mandible | |
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| | lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life | |
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| | skeleton / skeletal remains | |
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| | close kindred slaughter one another (idiom); internecine strife | |
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| | bone tool (archaeology) | |
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| | pubis / pubic bone | |
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| | tibia; shinbone | |
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| | ingrained / entrenched / deep-rooted | |
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| | fish bone / bone stuck in the throat / sth one feels obliged to speak out about / candid speaker | |
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| | nasal bone | |
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| | ilium (the large flat bone of the pelvic girdle) | |
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| | parietal bone (top of the scull) | |
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| | strength of character / vigorous style (of calligraphy) | |
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