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骨立

gǔ lì

2-character word

What 骨立 means

1. literaryemaciated; bony

The characters in 骨立

• 骨gǔbone
• 立lìto stand; to set up; to establish

Words containing 骨立

• 哀毁骨立āi huǐ gǔ lì(idiom) to become emaciated from grief, esp. while mourning the death of a parent

Sounds the same

Read gǔ lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鼓励to encourage
• 股利dividend
• 古丽Gül (common female Uyghur name)
• 骨力(Chinese calligraphy) vigor of brushstrokes; fortitude; toughness; spine
• 谷粒grain (of cereal)
• 股栗(literary) to tremble with fear