The Chinese Radical: 骨


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Meaning
bone    骨

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 5
slippery, smooth, comical, cunning
huá
Left: water , right: skeleton, bones (from top: bone [pictograph of a vertebra], cover , body/flesh )
Water on the bones makes them smooth.
JLPT HSK 5
skeleton, bone

From top: bone (pictograph of a vertebra), cover , body/flesh /
Bones are covered with flesh and form the skeleton.
JLPT HSK 5
sly, crafty, slick, deceitful
huá
Left: wild animal (dog on the hind legs), right: skeleton, bone (image of a vertebra, cover , body/flesh )
A wild animal wants to get the bones and is sly /crafty.
JLPT no HSK
skeleton, bones of the body
hái
Left: bones/vertebrae , right: (zodiac) pig (head , fat body small tail )
Also the bones of the pig are a skeleton.
JLPT no HSK
marrow (spinal or plant's stem), essence, pith
suǐ
Left: sceleton , right: 遀 (movement , part of lazy [I feel , that the left [half] of my body is lazy])
The sceleton has during movement sth. lazy: The marrow.
JLPT no HSK
skeleton, bone, corpse

Left: skeleton (image of a vertebra, cover , body/flesh ), right: every (Sitting cross-legged on a cushion does everybody)
The skeleton, that everybody has is: the skeleton.
JLPT no HSK
skeleton, human skull

Left: skeleton (image of a vertebra, cover , body/flesh ), right: old (originally: a skull, but it's better to imagine a tomb stone)
The skeleton at the tomb stone: a skeleton.
JLPT no HSK
skull
lóu
Left: skeleton (image of a vertebra, cover , body/flesh ), right: collect (Rice grains are by women been: collected.)
(As a souvenir?) From the skeleton this is collected: The skull.

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