"Bone" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 gǔ tou bone / CL:根[gen1],塊|块[kuai4] / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
 gǔ bone
 gǔ suǐ bone marrow (medulla ossea)
 jiǎ gǔ wén oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
 gǔ huī bone ash / cremation ashes / cremains
 zào xuè to make blood (function of bone marrow)
 chè gǔ to the bone / to the marrow / fig. to a very large degree
 zào xuè gàn xì bāo blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)
 quán gǔ zygomatic bone (cheek bone)
 yú gǔ fish bone
 bái gǔ jīng White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
 gǔ huī hé box for bone ashes / funerary casket
 gǔ fěn bone meal
 chǐ gǔ pubis / pubic bone
 gǔ suǐ yí zhí bone marrow transplant
 jiǎ gǔ tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
 lěng sōu sōu chilled to the bone / (of the wind) chilly
 hǔ gǔ tiger bone (used in TCM)
 gǔ cí bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
 féi gǔ fibula / calf bone
 zhěn gǔ occipital bone (back of the skull)
 huái gǔ ankle bone / ankle
 é gǔ frontal bone (forehead)
 kuà gǔ hip bone
 kuān gǔ hip bone
 ráo gǔ radius (anatomy) / bone of the forearm
 zhǎng gǔ metacarpal bone (long bones in the hand and feet)
 chǐ gǔ ulna (anatomy) / bone of the forearm
 qià gǔ ilium (the large flat bone of the pelvic girdle)
 shé to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
 tuǐ hip bone / old variant of 腿[tui3]
 dǐ sacrum (anatomy) / bone forming the base of the spinal column
 qià ilium / outermost bone of the pelvic girdle / Taiwan pr. [ka4]
 ráo radius (anatomy) / bone of the forearm
 gěng to choke on a piece of food / (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat
 chuí callus on the hand or foot / upper leg bone of horse or bird / buttocks
 hèn zhī rù gǔ to hate sb to the bone (idiom)
 qiè gǔ zhī chóu bitter hatred / hatred that cuts to the bone
 gǔ gěng zhī chén lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom) / fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism
 gǔ gěng zài hóu fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom) / fig. to feel obliged to speak out candidly / sth on one's mind
 pián shǒu zhī zú with callouses on hands and feet (idiom) / to work one's fingers to the bone
 rú gěng zài hóu lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom) / fig. very upset and needing to express one's displeasure
 dǐng gǔ parietal bone (top of the scull)
 dǐ gǔ sacrum (anatomy) / bone forming the base of the spinal column
 zhēn gǔ incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
 dié gǔ sphenoid bone (front of the temple)
 gǔ zhēn spicule (in biology) / bone needle (in archaeology)
 shāi gǔ ethmoid bone (cheek)
 chuí gǔ malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
 biǎn gǔ flat bone
 chéng gǔ bù quán zhèng osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) / brittle bone disease
 gū big bone
 gǔ fǎ bone structure and physiognomy / the strength observed in brushstrokes (Chinese calligraphy)
 kēng shank bone of ox
 zǐ dried meat with bone
 héng gǔ pubic bone
 nèi ěr dào internal auditory meatus (canal in temporal bone of skull housing auditory nerves)
 bǔ gǔ oracle bone / bone used for divination, esp. animal scapula
 hán fēng cì gǔ bone chilling wind (idiom)
 chéng gǔ bone formation / osteogenesis
 yǒu láo dé jiǎng a good dog deserves a bone (idiom)
 lí gǔ vomer bone (in the nose, dividing the nostrils)
 jiǎ gǔ wén zì oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
 xī sōng gǔ zhì cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone
 hóng gǔ suǐ red bone marrow (myeloid tissue)
 tīng xiǎo gǔ ossicles (of the middle ear) / three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
 dèng gǔ stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear
 yǐn quán a skull with sunken cheek bone / cryptozygous
 niè gǔ temporal bone / os temporale
 quán gōng cheek bone / zygomatic arch (anatomy)
 gǔ kè carving in bone
 gǔ qì bone tool (archaeology)
 gǔ tàn bone black / animal charcoal
 gǔ gěng fish bone / bone stuck in the throat / sth one feels obliged to speak out about / candid speaker
 huáng gǔ suǐ yellow or fatty bone marrow
 bí gǔ nasal bone
 bó nè nasal bone
 liáo (literary) hip bone / (TCM) space between two joints
 gǔ mì duó yí bone densitometer
 shǒu zhuā yáng ròu hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
 huò sound of flesh being separated from the bone
 jiāo gǔ pubic bone
 fǎn gǔ (physiognomy) protruding bone at the back of the head, regarded as a sign of a renegade nature
 yíng fó gǔ to ceremonially receive a bone relic of the Buddha
 jǐn yǎo bù fàng (idiom) unwilling to let go / like a dog with a bone / dogged
 gǔ liè bone fracture / (of a bone) to fracture
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