Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N2

936 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: skeleton, bone, remains, frame

Kunyomi: ほね

Onyomi: コツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ほね

Meaning: bone

Strokes: 10

Examples

Examples with audio

格(こっかく)   physique, build frame

髄(こつずい)   marrow, true spirit

(はっこつ)   bleached white bone

(いこつ)   remains, ashes of deceased

(がいこつ)   skeleton

(てっこつ)   steel frame

折する(こっせつする)   break a bone

(ほね)   bone

っぽい(ほねっぽい)   bony, tough, plucky

組み(ほねぐみ)   skeleton, framework

惜しみ(ほねおしみ)   sparing oneself laziness

Onyomi Examples

コツ knack, skill, trick, secret, know-how, the ropes, hang, bone, skeleton, cremated remains (esp. the bones), ashes

コツズイ bone marrow, medulla, true spirit, one's mind

ハッコツ white (bleached) bone, skeleton

テッコツ steel frame, steel beam, steel girder

Kunyomi Examples

ほね bone, frame, outline, core, backbone, spirit, fortitude, laborious, troublesome, difficult

抜き ほねぬき boning (fish or meat), deboning, watering down (a plan, bill, etc.), dilution, emasculation, taking the backbone out of, weakening

こうほね Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)

水母の くらげのほね something that one would not expect to exist, something exceedingly rare, jellyfish bones