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捡骨

jiǎn gǔ

2-character word Traditional 撿骨

What 捡骨 means

1. 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

The characters in 捡骨

• 捡jiǎnto pick up; to collect; to gather
• 骨gǔbone

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