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尸骨 (shī gǔ): meaning and stroke order

尸骨 (shī gǔ) means skeleton of the dead.

尸骨

Simplified
尸骨
Traditional
屍骨
Pinyin
shī gǔ

Stroke order of 尸骨

尸

  • shī (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
  • shī (bound form) corpse
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 屍

Stroke by stroke

骨

  • gū used in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]
  • gǔ bone
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尸骨

  1. shī gǔ Traditional 屍骨
    • skeleton of the dead

Radicals of the characters

尸
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 3 strokes
骨
Radical 骨 (Kangxi radical 188) · 10 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

尸骨 in our stories

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  • 半年前回家路上，他在赵大家借宿，赵大夫妻看上了他的银子，趁他睡着害了他，又把他的尸骨烧成灰，和在泥里做成了这个瓦盆。

    bàn nián qián huí jiā lù shàng tā zài Zhào Dà jiā jièsù Zhào Dà fūqī kàn shàng le tā de yínzi chèn tā shuìzháo hài le tā yòu bǎ tā de shīgǔ shāo chéng huī huò zài ní lǐ zuò chéng le zhè gè wǎpén

    Six months earlier, on his way home, he had stayed the night at Zhao Da's. Zhao Da and his wife coveted his silver and killed him in his sleep, then burned his remains to ash, mixed them into clay and made this basin.

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 尸骨

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).