The kanji 骨: meaning, readings and stroke order

骨

Meaning: bone
On reading: コツ kotsu
Kun reading: ほね hone
Strokes: 10
Radical: 骨 bone
Level: Level 6 · grade 6

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: xương (cốt)
Japanese: ほね。
Korean: 뼈 (골)
Chinese: 骨头

Readings, words and example sentences

コツ kotsu · on reading · less common

鉄てっ骨こつ
steel frame
鉄てっ骨こつの建物が建ちます。
A building with a steel frame is going up.

ほね hone · kun reading

骨ほね
bone
魚の 骨ほねを取って食べます。
I take the bones out of the fish before I eat it.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.