骸 (hái): bones of the body
骸 (hái) is a Chinese character meaning “bones of the body.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 骨 (semantic) and 亥 (phonetic). It ranks #2633 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 骸 bone. Its radical form 骨 (bone) appears in many related characters such as 骨 (gǔ, bone), 髓 (suǐ, (bound form) bone marrow), 骼 (gé, used in 骨骼).
Definitions
- bones of the body
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 残骸noun | cán hái | remains |
| 遗骸noun | yí hái | (dead) human remains |
| 骸骨noun | hái gǔ | skeleton |
| 尸骸noun | shī hái | corpse |
| 放浪形骸phrase | fàng làng xíng hái | to abandon all restraint (idiom) |
| 形骸noun | xíng hái | the human body |
| 土木形骸 | tǔ mù xíng hái | earth and wood framework (idiom) |
| 骨骸noun | gǔ hái | bones |
骸 appears in 8 compound words: 13 as the first character, 88 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
游荡、摧毁、搜刮、拆解……你将在从残骸中重铸自我。
yóu dàng , cuī huǐ , sōu guā , chāi jiě nǐ jiāng zài cóng cán hái zhōng chóng zhù zì wǒ .
Roam, destroy, loot, dismantle… You’ll rebuild yourself from the ruins.
磁星是大质量恒星爆炸后留下的致密残骸，拥有宇宙已知最强的磁场。
cí xīng shì dà zhì liàng héng xīng bào zhà hòu liú xià de zhì mì cán hái , yōng yǒu yǔ zhòu yǐ zhī zuì qiáng de cí chǎng .
A magnetar is a dense remnant left behind after the explosion of a massive star, and it possesses the strongest magnetic field known in the universe.
这是一项针对恒星残骸信号的新研究得出的核心结论。
zhè shì yī xiàng zhēn duì héng xīng cán hái xìn hào de xīn yán jiū dé chū de hé xīn jié lùn .
This is the key finding of a new study on signals from stellar remnants.
黑洞是大质量恒星死亡后的遗骸。
hēi dòng shì dà zhì liàng héng xīng sǐ wáng hòu de yí hái .
Black holes are the remnants of massive stars after they die.
Character Family
骨 Radical Family — Characters sharing the bone radical
Homophones — Characters pronounced hái
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