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骸

hái

Character

What 骸 means

1. bones of the body

Example sentences

• 船的残骸从海底被打捞上来。
  Chuán de cánhái cóng hǎidǐ bèi dǎlāo shànglái.
  The wreckage of the ship was salvaged after it had gone to Davy Jones's locker.
• 探险家们在洞穴里发现了骸骨。
  Tànxiǎnjiā men zài dòngxué lǐ fāxiàn le háigǔ.
  The explorers discovered a skeleton in the cave.
• 一名空姐从飞机残骸中被救出来了。
  Yī míng kōngjiě cóng fēijī cánhái zhōng bèi jiùchū lái le.
  A stewardess was rescued from the wreck.

Words starting with 骸

• 骸骨hái gǔskeleton; skeletal remains

Words containing 骸

• 残骸cán háiremains; wreckage
• 尸骸shī háicorpse; skeleton
• 形骸xíng háithe human body; skeleton
• 遗骸yí hái(dead) human remains
• 骨骸gǔ háibones; skeleton
• 土木形骸tǔ mù xíng háiearth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
• 放浪形骸fàng làng xíng háito abandon all restraint (idiom)

Characters built on 亥

These share the phonetic component 亥 (hài), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 该gāishould; ought to; probably
• 孩hái(bound form) child
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
• 氦hàihelium (chemistry)
• 赅gāicomplete; full
• 陔gāistep; terrace
• 垓gāiboundary
• 胲hǎihydroxylamine (chemistry)

Characters that look like 骸

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 额éforehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 糕gāocake
• 辙zhérut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 骷kūused in 骷髅
• 靛diànindigo pigment
• 鹘gǔused in 鹘鸼

Sounds the same

Read hái, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 还still; still in progress; still more
• 孩(bound form) child