bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location
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Chinese holly (Ilex cornuta)
gentle feelings and chivalrous disposition (idiom)
pubic bone
bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy
the eight methods of bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
see 氟骨症[]
osteofluorosis / skeletal fluorosis
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
vomer bone (in the nose, dividing the nostrils)
lit. the dead returning to life / a miracle (idiom)
(anatomy) thyroid cartilage
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC) / oracle bones
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
(idiom) emaciated / scrawny
see 瘦骨嶙峋[]
bony / skinny
bones of the dead
coot
to be all skin and bones (idiom) / also written 皮包骨[]
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
to be extremely cold or painful
cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone
erhua variant of 節骨眼|节骨眼[]
ethmoid bone (cheek)
see 粘皮帶骨|粘皮带骨[]
red bone marrow / hematopoietic marrow
columbarium
cytoskeleton (of a cell)
(dialect) veteran actor / old trouper
weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)
ossicles (of the middle ear) / three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
chain of ossicles (in the middle ear)
bak-kut-teh or pork ribs soup, popular in Malaysia and Singapore
humerus
spine
hip bone
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