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bone 骨
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Used in these characters:
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滑
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| slippery, smooth, comical, cunning
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Left: water 氵, right: skeleton, bones 骨 (from top: bone [pictograph of a vertebra], cover 冖, body/flesh 月/肉)
Water on the bones makes them smooth.
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骨
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| skeleton, bone
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From top: bone (pictograph of a vertebra), cover 冖, flesh / body part 月/肉
The bones are the body part of the: skeleton.
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猾
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| sly, crafty, slick, deceitful
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Left: wild animal 犭(dog on the hind legs), right: skeleton, bone 骨 (image of a vertebra, cover 冖, body/flesh 月)
A wild animal wants to get the bones and is sly /crafty.
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骸
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JLPT no HSK |
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| skeleton, bones of the body
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Left: bones/vertebrae 骨, right: (zodiac) pig 亥 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶)
Also the bones of the pig are a skeleton.
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髓
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JLPT no HSK |
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| marrow (spinal or plant's stem), essence, pith
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Left: skeleton 骨, right: 遀 (movement 辶, part of lazy 惰 [I feel 忄, that the left 左 [half] of my body 月/肉 is lazy])
The skeleton has during movement sth. lazy: The marrow.
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骼
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JLPT no HSK |
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| skeleton, bone, corpse
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Left: skeleton 骨 (image of a vertebra, cover 冖, body/flesh 月), right: every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody)
The skeleton, that everybody has is: the skeleton.
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骷
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JLPT no HSK |
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| skeleton, human skull
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Left: skeleton 骨 (image of a vertebra, cover 冖, body/flesh 月), right: old 古 (originally: a skull, but it's better to imagine a tomb stone)
The skeleton at the tomb stone: a skeleton.
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髅
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JLPT no HSK |
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| skull
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Left: skeleton 骨 (image of a vertebra, cover 冖, body/flesh 月), right: collect 娄 (Rice grains 米 are by women 女 been: collected.)
(As a souvenir?) From the skeleton this is collected: The skull.
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