骨 hanja, meaning bone, read 골 (gol)
Reading
bone; skeleton; frame, framework; Kangxi radical 188
뼈 골ppyeo gol
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 뼈 (ppyeo) is the Korean for bone, and 골 (gol) is the reading. Say 뼈 골 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⾻ 188
- Beyond radical
- 0
- Mandarin
- gǔ
- Japanese on
- kotsu
- Japanese kun
- hone
Vocabulary
Words that use 骨
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.