| 骨 | ||
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| 骨 (U+9AA8) "bone" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gǔ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ku3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gwat1 | |
| Jyutping: | gwat1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | コツ kotsu / コチ kochi (on'yomi) ほね hone (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 골 gol | |
| Hán-Việt: | cốt, cọt, cút, gút | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 骨字旁 gǔzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 骨偏/ほねへん honehen | |
| Hangul: | 뼈 ppyeo | |
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Radical 188 or radical bone (骨部) meaning "bone" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 185 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
骨 (9 strokes in Simplified Chinese) is also the 182nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.