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) 骨干 骨幹 gǔ gàn diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone syn 痛痛快快 tòng tong kuài kuài immediately / without a moment's hesitation / with alacrity / firing from the hip syn 不假思索 bù jiǎ sī suǒ to act without taking time to think (idiom) / to react instantly / to fire from the hip syn 骨膜 gǔ mó periosteum (membrane covering bone) 骨粉 gǔ fěn bone meal 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) 嘻哈 xī hā hip-hop (music genre) (loanword) 三围 三圍 sān wéi BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍|胸围[xiong1 wei2], waist 腰圍|腰围[yao1 wei2] and hip 臀圍|臀围[tun2 wei2] 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 如胶似漆 如膠似漆 rú jiāo sì qī stuck together as by glue (of lovers) / joined at the hip syn 骨髓移植 gǔ suǐ yí zhí (medicine) bone marrow transplant 酷 kù ruthless / strong (e.g. of wine) / (loanword) cool / hip 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 胯 kuà crotch / groin / hip 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 髋关节 髖關節 kuān guān jié pelvis / hip joint 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 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 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 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) 臀围 臀圍 tún wéi hip measurement 砧骨 zhēn gǔ incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone 蝶骨 dié gǔ sphenoid bone (front of the temple) 骨瘤 gǔ liú osteoma (benign tumor composed of bone-like material) 骨针 骨針 gǔ zhēn spicule (in biology) / bone needle (in archaeology) 筛骨 篩骨 shāi gǔ ethmoid bone (cheek) 锤骨 錘骨 chuí gǔ malleus or hammer bone of middle ear 腄 chuí callus on the hand or foot / upper leg bone of horse or bird / buttocks 切骨之仇 qiè gǔ zhī chóu bitter hatred / hatred that cuts to the bone syn 骨鲠之臣 骨鯁之臣 gǔ gěng zhī chén lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom) / fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism 骨鲠在喉 骨鯁在喉 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 胼手胝足 pián shǒu zhī zú lit. with calluses on hands and feet (idiom) / fig. to work one's fingers to the bone 如鲠在喉 如鯁在喉 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 稀松骨质 稀鬆骨質 xī sōng gǔ zhì cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone 听小骨 聽小骨 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 骨鲠 骨鯁 gǔ gěng fish bone / bone stuck in the throat / sth one feels obliged to speak out about / candid speaker 骨裂 gǔ liè bone fracture / (of a bone) to fracture 腰臀比 yāo tún bǐ waist-hip 不需校准即行射击 不需校準即行射擊 hip shot fire 坐射 hip shot fire 电臀舞 電臀舞 diàn tún wǔ twerking, sexually provocative dance involving hip movements while in a low, squatting position 歇山顶 歇山頂 xiē shān dǐng (East Asian) hip-and-gable roof 玫瑰果 méi guī guǒ rose hip 骹 qiāo shank (the leg from knee to ankle) / leg (from hip to ankle) / (horse anatomy) pastern 不假思索 bù jiǎ - sī suǒ (idiom) to act without taking time to think / to react instantly / to fire from the hip syn 刺梨 cì lí chestnut rose fruit (hip of Rosa roxburghii), used in TCM 扁骨 biǎn gǔ flat bone 成骨不全症 chéng gǔ bù quán zhèng osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) / brittle bone disease 軱 gū big bone 骨法 gǔ fǎ bone structure and physiognomy / the strength observed in brushstrokes (Chinese calligraphy) 牼 kēng shank bone of ox 胏 zǐ dried meat with bone 横骨 橫骨 héng gǔ pubic bone 丁骨牛排 dīng gǔ niú pái T-bone steak 内耳道 內耳道 nèi ěr dào internal auditory meatus (canal in temporal bone of skull housing auditory nerves) 卜骨 bǔ gǔ oracle bone 寒风刺骨 寒風刺骨 hán fēng cì gǔ bone chilling wind (idiom) 成骨 chéng gǔ bone formation / osteogenesis 有劳得奖 有勞得獎 yǒu láo dé jiǎng a good dog deserves a bone (idiom) 犁骨 lí gǔ vomer bone (in the nose, dividing the nostrils) 甲骨文字 jiǎ gǔ wén zì oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script) 红骨髓 紅骨髓 hóng gǔ suǐ red bone marrow / hematopoietic marrow 羟基磷灰石 羥基磷灰石 qiǎng jī lín huī shí hydroxy-apatite (phosphatic lime deposited in bone) 腹吸盘 腹吸盤 fù xī pán acetabulum (part of the pelvis bone) 锤骨柄 錘骨柄 chuí gǔ bǐng manubrium of malleus (handle of hammer bone), connecting ossicles 聽小骨|听小骨 to tympanum 鼓膜 镫骨 鐙骨 dèng gǔ stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear 隐颧 隱顴 yǐn quán a skull with sunken cheek bone / cryptozygous 颞骨 顳骨 niè gǔ temporal bone / os temporale 