骸
bones of the body
15 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,435 U+9AB8
How 骸 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
骨 (semantic, “bone”) + 亥 (phonetic, hài)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 亥
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 亥 (hài) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亥 sound component | hài | 12th terrestrial branch; used in transliterations |
| 核 | hé | core, kernel; nut, seed; atom |
| 刻 | kè | to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment |
| 孩 | hái | baby, child; children |
| 该 | gāi | should, ought to, must |
| 骇 | hài | to terrify, to shock, to frighten |
| 咳 | hāi | to cough |
| 颏 | kē | chin |
| 赅 | gāi | to include; to prepare for |
| 劾 | hé | to look into; to impeach, to charge |
| 氦 | hài | helium |
| 垓 | gāi | border, boundary, frontier |
| 阂 | hé | separated, blocked; to prevent, to block |
| 胲 | hǎi | hydroxylamine |
| 陔 | gāi | ledge, step, terrace; slope |
Words containing 骸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土木形骸 | tǔ mù xíng hái | earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body |
| 放浪形骸 | fàng làng xíng hái | to abandon all restraint (idiom) |
| 形骸 | xíng hái | the human body; skeleton |
| 骨骸 | gǔ hái | bones; skeleton |
| 骸骨 | hái gǔ | skeleton; skeletal remains |
| 遗骸 | yí hái | (dead) human remains |
| 残骸 | cán hái | remains; wreckage |
| 尸骸 | shī hái | corpse; skeleton |