骨头 骨頭 gǔ tou bone / CL:根[gen1],塊|块[kuai4] / moral character / bitterness / Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5] syn 打断 打斷 dǎ duàn to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone) syn 骨折 gǔ zhé to suffer a fracture / (of a bone) to break / fracture 骨灰 gǔ huī bone ash / cremation ashes / cremains 骨髓 gǔ suǐ bone marrow syn 石膏 shí gāo gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O) / plaster / plaster cast (for a broken bone) syn 颧骨 顴骨 quán gǔ zygomatic bone (cheek bone) syn 刺骨 cì gǔ piercing / cutting / bone-chilling / penetrating (cold) syn 骨灰盒 gǔ huī hé box for bone ashes / funerary casket syn 造血 zào xuè to make blood (function of bone marrow) 黑子 hēi zǐ black piece (in Chinese chess) / black stone (in Go) / (astronomy) sunspot syn 骨干 骨幹 gǔ gàn diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone syn 骨膜 gǔ mó periosteum (membrane covering bone) 昏天黑地 hūn tiān hēi dì lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times syn 骨粉 gǔ fěn bone meal 豆豉 dòu chǐ black bean / black bean sauce 甲骨文 jiǎ gǔ wén oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script) 耻骨 恥骨 chǐ gǔ pubis / pubic bone 白骨精 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 syn 接上 jiē shàng to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone) 彻骨 徹骨 chè gǔ to the bone / to the marrow / fig. to a very large degree syn 造血干细胞 造血幹細胞 zào xuè gàn xì bāo blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow) 鱼骨 魚骨 yú gǔ fish bone 真武 zhēn wǔ Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝 黑鬼 hēi guǐ black devil (derogatory term for black or African person) 骨髓移植 gǔ suǐ yí zhí (medicine) bone marrow transplant 乌亮 烏亮 wū liàng lustrous and black / jet-black syn 腿 骽 tuǐ hip bone / old variant of 腿[tui3] syn 骨 gǔ bone syn 折 shé to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) syn 叼 diāo to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone) syn 恨之入骨 hèn zhī rù gǔ to hate sb to the bone (idiom) syn 尺骨 chǐ gǔ ulna (anatomy) / bone of the forearm 腓骨 féi gǔ fibula / calf bone 髓 suǐ (bound form) bone marrow / (fig.) innermost part / (botany) pith syn 掌骨 zhǎng gǔ metacarpal bone (long bones in the hand and feet) 枕骨 zhěn gǔ occipital bone (back of the skull) syn 桡骨 橈骨 ráo gǔ radius (anatomy) / bone of the forearm 顶骨 頂骨 dǐng gǔ parietal bone (top of the scull) syn 髋骨 髖骨 kuān gǔ hip bone syn 髂骨 qià gǔ ilium (the large flat bone of the pelvic girdle) syn 髂 qià ilium / outermost bone of the pelvic girdle / Taiwan pr. [ka4] 踝骨 huái gǔ ankle bone / ankle 胯骨 kuà gǔ hip bone syn 虎骨 hǔ gǔ tiger bone (used in TCM) 桡 橈 ráo radius (anatomy) / bone of the forearm syn 鲠 鯁 gěng to choke on a piece of food / (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat syn 骊 驪 lí black horse / jet steed / good horse / legendary black dragon 骨瓷 gǔ cí bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash) 额骨 額骨 é gǔ frontal bone (forehead) 将 將 jiàng (bound form) a general / (literary) to command / to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) syn 黑人 hēi rén black person / an illegal 黑色 hēi sè black 黑洞 hēi dòng (astronomy) black hole 晕倒 暈倒 yūn dǎo to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious syn 黑市 hēi shì black market 截然不同 jié rán bù tóng entirely different / different as black and white syn 黑白 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome syn 漆黑 qī hēi pitch-black syn 乌云 烏雲 wū yún black cloud syn 黑发 黑髮 hēi fà black hair syn 狗熊 gǒu xióng black bear / coward syn 抹黑 mǒ hēi to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words) syn 黑心 hēi xīn ruthless and lacking in conscience / vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy / black core (flaw in pottery) syn 白纸黑字 白紙黑字 bái zhǐ hēi zì (written) in black and white syn 害群之马 害群之馬 hài qún zhī mǎ lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple syn 红茶 紅茶 hóng chá black tea / CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2] 黝黑 yǒu hēi dark / black / suntanned syn 黑熊 hēi xióng Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) syn 穷凶极恶 窮兇極惡 qióng xiōng jí è fiendish / black-hearted syn 遍体鳞伤 遍體鱗傷 biàn tǐ lín shāng covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises syn 黑匣子 hēi xiá zi (airplane) black box syn 五彩 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored syn 黑海 hēi hǎi Black Sea 莨菪 làng dàng black henbane 石墨 shí mò black lead / graphite / plumbago 青鱼 青魚 qīng yú black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel syn 对比度 對比度 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast 黑色素 hēi sè sù black pigment / melanin 草果 cǎo guǒ black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry syn 单色 單色 dān sè monochrome / monochromatic / black and white 青丝 青絲 qīng sī fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient) syn 乌黑 烏黑 wū hēi jet-black / dark syn 银狐 銀狐 yín hú silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus) / also written 玄狐 syn 乌纱帽 烏紗帽 wū shā mào black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) / (fig.) official post syn 黑沉沉 hēi chēn chēn pitch-black syn 乌龙 烏龍 wū lóng black dragon / unexpected mistake or mishap / own goal (soccer) / oolong (tea) / (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon 乌鸡 烏雞 wū jī black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson 龙葵 龍葵 lóng kuí black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) 青衣 qīng yī black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦[zheng4 dan4] syn 反转 反轉 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc) syn 黑眼圈 hēi yǎn quān dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye 紫竹 zǐ zhú black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) syn 黄莺 黃鶯 huáng yīng black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) syn 普洱茶 pǔ ěr chá Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan 黑纱 黑紗 hēi shā black armband 黑糊糊 hēi hū hū black / dark / dusky / indistinct syn 四象 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3] 不分青红皂白 不分青紅皂白 bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong 