甲骨
jiǎ gǔ
Pinyin

Definition

甲骨
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jiǎ gǔ
  1. tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination
  2. oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

刻骨铭心
kè gǔ míng xīn
  1. 1 lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. etched in one's memory
  3. 3 unforgettable
指甲
zhǐ jia
  1. 1 fingernail
排骨
pái gǔ
  1. 1 pork chop
  2. 2 pork cutlet
  3. 3 spare ribs
  4. 4 (coll.) skinny person
甲
jiǎ
  1. 1 first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
  2. 2 (used for an unspecified person or thing)
  3. 3 first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)
  4. 4 letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
  5. 5 armor plating
  6. 6 shell or carapace
  7. 7 (of the fingers or toes) nail
  8. 8 bladed leather or metal armor (old)
  9. 9 ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)
  10. 10 civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bǎo jiǎ] system (old)
  11. 11 ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
骨
gǔ
  1. 1 bone

Idioms (20)

伤筋动骨
shāng jīn dòng gǔ
  1. 1 to suffer serious injury (idiom)
伤筋断骨
shāng jīn duàn gǔ
  1. 1 to suffer serious injury (idiom)
刻骨相思
kè gǔ xiāng sī
  1. 1 deep-seated lovesickness (idiom)
刻骨铭心
kè gǔ míng xīn
  1. 1 lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. etched in one's memory
  3. 3 unforgettable
冢中枯骨
zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ
  1. 1 dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried

Sample Sentences

大陆也有人嚷着要恢复繁体字。不过简体方便，容易写容易记。据说扫盲多亏了它。再说几千年来汉字一直在简化啊。从甲骨文、金文变为篆书，再变为隶书、楷书，总体趋势就是从繁到简。
dàlù yě yǒurén rǎng zhe yào huīfù fántǐzì 。bùguò jiǎntī fāngbiàn ，róngyì xiě róngyì jì 。jùshuō sǎománg duōkuī le tā 。zàishuō jǐ qiān nián lái hànzì yīzhí zài jiǎnhuà ā 。cóng jiǎgǔwén 、jīnwén biàn wéi zhuànshū ，zài biàn wéi lìshū 、kǎishū ，zǒngtǐ qūshì jiùshì cóng fán dào jiǎn 。
There are also people on the mainland who say we should get back to traditional characters. But simplified characters are convenient, easy to remember and to write. Apparently they did a lot to reduce illiteracy. And furthermore, Chinese characters have been being simplified for thousands of years. From oracle bones and bronze inscriptions to seal script, and then again to the Han script and regular script-- the general trend is from complexity to simplicity.
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