骨（ほね）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: odaka (tail-high) — high to the end, drops on a following particle (accent on mora 2)
Meaning: bone
Example sentences
- 転んで足の骨を折ってしまった。 — I fell and broke a bone in my leg.
- この魚は骨が多くて食べにくい。 — This fish has a lot of bones, so it's hard to eat.
Idioms & proverbs containing “骨”
- 豚を盗んで骨を施す (ぶたをぬすんでほねをほどこす) — you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence; steal a pig and give the feet for alms
- 一将功成りて万骨枯る (いっしょうこうなりてばんこつかる) — thousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
- 一将功成って万骨枯る (いっしょうこうなってばんこつかる) — thousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
- 彫心鏤骨 (ちょうしんるこつ) — laborious work; lucubration; lucubrations; painstakingly polishing a piece of literary work
- 粉骨砕身 (ふんこつさいしん) — making one's best exertions
- 書画骨董 (しょがこっとう) — curios and objets d'art
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