Keyword
bone
Info
FrequencyTop 800-900
Type
Kyōiku (6th grade) 
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KankenLevel 5
Heisig1383
Readings
こつ
(42%)
ほね
(39%)
こっ
(9%)
ぼね
(7%)
Composed of
skull
moon
Used in kanji (13 in total)
slippery
remains
marrow
sly
Used in vocabulary (441 in total)
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
bone fracture
to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard
boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
rib; frame (of a ship)
skeleton; skeletal structure; build; framework
collarbone; clavicle
spine; backbone; spinal column
to make efforts; to take pains; to break a bone
white (bleached) bone; skeleton
steel frame; steel beam; steel girder
person of doubtful origin
boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening
to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow
skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline
(clenched) fist; knuckles
boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes; remains (of war dead)
the height of folly; sheer stupidity
shoulder blade; scapula
human bones
one's true worth; one's true self; what one is really made of
antique; curio
bone marrow; medulla; true spirit; one's mind
skin and bones
flesh and bones
to exert oneself greatly; to take pains
on the bone (meat, etc.); unboned; skeletal system; skeleton
to be bony; to be angular
having spirit; (being) staunch; having backbone
small bones
hipbone; innominate bone; fortitude; perseverance; endurance
(moral) backbone; spirit; soul; grit
muscles and bones; body build; physique; cartilage
cheekbones; zygomatic bone; malar bone
one's old bones; old man
one's own flesh and blood; blood relative; kinsman; flesh and bone; (one's) body
to be bony; to be angular
useless; waste of time and effort; pointless; vain efforts
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
making one's best exertions
pains; efforts; trouble; labor; labour; services
breastbone; sternum
cartilage; nankotsu; (dish of) gristle (usu. of chicken, deep-fried)
big-boned; sturdily built; stout; solid (plan, storyline, etc.)
to die; (lit.) to become bones
relaxation; recreation; recess
framework (of a building); foundation; mainstay; support; supporter
main point; gist; essentials; bones (e.g. of an idea); pith
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)
to feel keenly; to strike to the core; to touch to the quick; to pierce deep inside (e.g. cold)
waste of labor or energy; waste of labour; vain effort
shoulder blade; scapula
skeletal remains; dry bones of a corpse; human skeleton
dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)
rebellious spirit
pubis; pubes
to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; (lit.) to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone
coccyx; tailbone
skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline
nasal bone
funerary urn; cinerary urn; burial urn; cremation urn
bone fragment; spicule
placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); depositing ashes
to feel keenly; to strike to the core; to touch to the quick; to pierce deep inside (e.g. cold)
jawbone; mandible
ossuary; crypt; charnel house
on the bone (meat, etc.); unboned; skeletal system; skeleton
rib; frame (of a ship)
tonkotsu ramen; pork bone broth ramen
to collect the ashes of the deceased; to look after someone's affairs after he dies
jawbone; mandible
boor; rustic; country bumpkin; lout
height; pinnacle
antique store; curio store
humerus (upper bone in arm)
bone conduction; osteophony
to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)
playing cards; mahjong tiles made of animal bone
coccyx; tailbone
physique; phrenology
tibia; shinbone
osteopathic clinic
radius (bone of the forearm)
sparing oneself; laziness
boor; rustic; country bumpkin; lout
build; physique; appearance
to waste one's efforts; to work to no (useful) effect
rickets; boneless; spineless
worry; care; anxiety
ordinary person
bone; firm; uncompromising
curios and objets d'art
bone meal; powdered bone
wristbone; carpus; carpal bone
sacrum; sacral bone; hermitry; appearance of a hermit; unworldliness
beef bone (used to make stock); cattle bone; bovine bone
scattering of ashes (cremated remains)
personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character
phalanx (phalange) of the hand; phalanx (phalange) of the foot
backbone (of a fish)
mandible; lower jawbone
box in which ashes of the deceased are kept; box in which a funerary urn is kept
cheekbone; zygomatic bone; malar bone
rebellious spirit
antique market; flea market
ilium (part of pelvis)
skeleton; skeletal structure; build; framework
silky fowl; silky
to draw breath; to take a rest after work; to have a breather; to take a break
part of a person's ashes
knack; the ropes
small-boned; thin-boned; slender; slight
large bone; thick bone
ossification
funerary urn; cinerary urn; burial urn; cremation urn
spine; backbone; spinal column
skull; cranium
to have a deep grudge; to bear deep resentment towards someone
adaptation (of a poem, novel, etc.); recasting; rewriting; modification; rehashing
jawbone; mandible
bony; tough; plucky; spirited; hard to deal with
bonesetter's clinic; orthopedic clinic
thousands of lives
coccyx; tailbone
sphenoid bone (of the skull)
vertebra; vertebrae
to become mentally exhausted; to be tired (from worry)
brute courage; recklessness
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards
gathering up the ashes of the deceased
one's innate character; spirit; backbone
osteotomy; finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones
wooden frame
to chill one's bones (e.g. because of cold, pain, etc.); to be very cold; to be scathing
useless; waste of time and effort; pointless; vain efforts
ancient human skeleton; archaeological human remains
carpal (any of the bones of the carpus in the wrist)
eccentric
hyoid bone (of the skull)
outer two ribs of a folding fan (i.e. the thick ribs, one at each end); outer frame of a lattice door
deep fried fish bones (snack food)
picking up bones and bone fragments from (a person's) cremated remains with chopsticks and putting them in a funerary urn
funerary urn; cinerary urn; burial urn; cremation urn
to engrave in one's heart; (lit.) to inscribe on one's bones
bonesetting
to spare oneself; to spare oneself the trouble; (arch.) to nullify someone's efforts
(human) skeletal model
to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow
to get the hang of; to learn the secret to
fibula; fibular; peroneal
frontal bone (of the skull)
red-berried elder (Sambucus racemosa subsp. sieboldiana); Japanese elderberry
bone char; bone black; bone coal
bone quantity; bone mass
washing of cremated bones before placing them in a funerary urn (esp. in Okinawa)
bone age; skeletal age
deep fried fish bones (snack food)
bony tissue; bony substance
saint's bones; sacred bones
bone spur; osteophyte
hipbone; innominate bone
auditory ossicles
bonesetting
occipital bone (of the skull)
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)
laboring in vain or for no result; labouring in vain
bonesetting
temporal bone (of the skull)
rickets; boneless; spineless
laborious work; lucubration; lucubrations; painstakingly polishing a piece of literary work
to have a consanguineous feud; to fight between family members; to have an internecine feud
cartilaginous fishes; chondrichthyans
bony fishes; osteichthyans
ischium; ischial bone
navicular bone (largest wrist bone on the thumb side); scaphoid (bone)
skeleton; structure; build
bone marrow suppression
chivalrous spirit
ischium; ischial bone
sciatica; sciatic neuralgia; ischiodynia; ischias
height; pinnacle
bones of the feet; the strength of one's feet
acetabulum; cotyloid cavity
maxilla; upper jawbone
Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)
talus; astragalus; anklebone
meat-and-bone meal; MBM
palatine bone (of the skull)
shoulder blade; scapula
joint (between bones)
calcaneus; calcaneum; heel bone
tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)
ethmoid bone (of the skull)
recovering the remains of soldiers (e.g. Japanese soldiers who died abroad during WWII)
steel construction
phalanx (phalange) of the foot
jawbone; mandible
(a person with) strong moral fiber (backbone, determination)
being scattered in all directions; being broken up and dispersed
burial of ashes
osteopath; bonesetter
breech presentation
skin and bones
Chinese-style spare ribs (esp. pork, also beef or lamb), breaded and fried
bony fish; osteichthyan
sciatica; sciatic neuralgia; ischiodynia; ischias
Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)
ghostly skeletal old man who emerges from wells (Japanese folklore)
body and soul; mind and body; bottom of one's heart; depth of one's heart
thousands die to make one hero; (lit.) one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
thousands die to make one hero; (lit.) one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
to spare oneself (the trouble)
fortune-telling using animal bones
pelvic floor muscle; pubococcygeal muscle; Kegel muscle
stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes
bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals)
lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)
thousands die to make one hero; (lit.) one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
to be worth the effort; to be worth the trouble
Carina (constellation); the Keel
wishbone; furcula
bone tool; horn implement
manubrium of sternum; episternum
cremation; ashes (of a cremated person); cremated bones
spraining of a bone joint
bone scan; bone scintigraphy
gathering up the ashes of the deceased
to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; (lit.) to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone
stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes
ossification
losing weight and becoming bony because of grief
collecting bones and remains (e.g. on a battlefield); putting cremated remains in an urn
xiphoid (relating to the lower part of the sternum); chondroxiphoid
to be worth the effort; to be worth the trouble
painstaking efforts
saddle tree
to get the hang of; to learn the secret to
incus; anvil
backbone; spirit of defiance
(a person with) strong moral fiber (backbone, determination)
joint (between bones); backbone; spirit
to die; (lit.) to become bones
glass (drinking vessel); tumbler; cups (playing card suit)
making one's best exertions
to learn the ropes; to get the knack
playing cards; mahjong tiles made of animal bone
sacrum; sacral bone
indiscreet; thoughtless; absurd; laughable; disdaining; belittling
sphenoid bone (of the skull)
one's innate character; spirit; backbone
picking up bones and bone fragments from (a person's) cremated remains with chopsticks and putting them in a funerary urn
Western playing cards
stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes
unsun karuta; Japanese deck of cards with 5 suits of 15 cards each
backbone; spirit of defiance
bones of the upper and lower leg
bones of the hand
scaphoid bone (in wrist near thumb)
scapula; shoulder blade
steel-frame construction work
bony scale (of a fish)
backbreaking work
oracle bone script
the wish to have one's ashes scattered
blood feud; domestic discord
rustic; boorish; uncouth; adamantly sticking to being boorish
rustic; boorish; uncouth; adamantly sticking to being boorish
keel petal (type of flower)
hipbone; innominate bone
funerary urn; cinerary urn
medullary cavity (of bone)
lacrimal bone (of the skull)
vomer (a bone of the skull)
malleus (bone of the ear)
kanji "bone" radical at left
something that one would not expect to exist; something exceedingly rare; (lit.) jellyfish bones
steel-framed reinforced concrete construction
bone porcelain; bone china
bony labyrinth (of the inner ear)
fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (disease of the connective tissue); FOP
cuneiform (bones); sphenoid (bone)
membrane bone
bones supporting the fins of a fish
being thin and bony; bony body; bony old man; bony old woman
bone oil; clarified bone stock
charnel house; ossuary
eating bones; gnawing on a bone; osteophagy
Chondrichthyes (class comprising cartilaginous fishes)
thin inner ribs of a folding fan
Osteichthyes (class comprising the bony fishes and sometimes their descendants, i.e. tetrapods)
quadrate bone
dentary bone; dentary
tooth; gums
keel (bird bone); carina
fibular hemimelia; fibula agenesis
bournonite; berthonite; cogwheel ore
muscular type (Kretschmer's typology); athletic type
key-block print (woodblock, copper etching); key-plate print; outline block print
key-block print (woodblock, copper etching); key-plate print; outline block print
calcaneus; calcaneum; heel bone
baculum; os penis; penis bone
reliquary; feretrum
jawbone; mandible; branchial arches (in fish); gill arches
jawbone; mandible; branchial arches (in fish); gill arches
jawbone; mandible; branchial arches (in fish); gill arches
steel-frame construction; steel structure
you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence; (lit.) steal a pig and give the feet for alms
to engrave in one's heart
bony fishes; Osteichthyes
pendant containing the ashes of a deceased person
whale-fall community; whale-fall fauna
funerary urn
dry bones; skeleton; wasting away
playing card tax; tax on playing cards, mahjong sets, domino sets, etc. (abolished in 1989)
boorish; unrefined
boorish; unrefined
osteonecrosis; avascular necrosis; bone infarction
Examples (72 in total)
This fish has a lot of bones.
He gave the dog a bone.
I don't like fish with lots of bones.