骸

骸	U+9AB8, 骸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AB8

← 骷
[U+9AB7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

骹 →
[U+9AB9]

Translingual

Han character

骸 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+6, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜女人 (BBYVO), four-corner 7028₂, composition ⿰骨亥)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1448, character 50
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45164
Dae Jaweon: page 1975, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4412, character 1
Unihan data for U+9AB8

Chinese

trad.		骸
simp. ^#		骸
alternative forms		䠹𡱍䯐𩩏𩩰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亥) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
該	*kɯː
垓	*kɯː
賅	*kɯː
陔	*kɯː
豥	kɯː, ɡɯː
荄	kɯː, krɯː
郂	*kɯː
姟	*kɯː
絯	kɯː, ɡrɯːʔ
晐	*kɯː
峐	*kɯː
侅	kɯː, kʰɯː, ɡɯːʔ, ɡrɯːʔ
胲	*kɯː
頦	kɯːʔ, ɡɯː
奒	*kʰɯː
輆	*kʰɯːʔ
欬	kʰɯːɡs, qraːds
硋	*ŋɡɯːɡs
閡	*ŋɡɯːɡs
咳	qʰɯː, ɡɯː
孩	*ɡɯː
亥	*ɡɯːʔ
劾	ɡɯːɡs, kʰrɯːɡs, *ɡɯːɡ
痎	*krɯː
烗	*kʰrɯːɡs
骸	*ɡrɯː
駭	*ɡrɯːʔ
刻	*kʰɯːɡ
餩	*qɯːɡ
核	ɡuːd, ɡrɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡrɯː): semantic 骨 + phonetic 亥 (OC *ɡɯːʔ).

Etymology

Possibly related to 核 (OC *ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ, “kernel; seed”) (Schuessler, 2007; Smith, 2011). See there for further etymology.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hái (hai²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haai⁴ / hoi⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): hài
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hâi

(Teochew, Peng'im): hai⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hái
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hái
  - Wade–Giles: hai²
  - Yale: hái
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hair
  - Palladius: хай (xaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: haai⁴ / hoi⁴
  - Yale: hàaih / hòih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haai⁴ / hoi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: hai⁴ / hoi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːi̯²¹/, /hɔːi̯²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hài
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hai⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâi
  - Tâi-lô: hâi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haai
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hai²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hai²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hai¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hai²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hai⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hâi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hai⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: heaj

Rime
Character	骸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	皆 (33)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸皆切
Baxter	heaj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠɛi/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚæi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɐi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəɨj/
Li Rong	/ɣɛi/
Wang Li	/ɣɐi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣăi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haai⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤrə/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡrɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	骸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hái
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛj ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁrə/
English	bones, skeleton
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	骸
Reading #	1/1
No.	4835
Phonetic component	亥
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	諧
Old Chinese	/*ɡrɯː/

Definitions

骸

skeleton; bones (particularly of a dead person)
shinbone
body

Compounds

乞骸
乞骸骨 (qǐ háigǔ)
土木形骸
屍骸 / 尸骸 (shīhái)
形骸 (xínghái)
打骸垢
支骸
放浪形骸 (fànglàng xínghái)
易子析骸
析骸以爨 (xīháiyǐcuàn)
析骸易子
殘骸 / 残骸 (cánhái)
潛骸竄影 / 潜骸窜影
炊骨爨骸
遺骸 / 遗骸 (yíhái)
骸骨 (háigǔ)
點檢形骸 / 点检形骸

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04661

Japanese

Kanji

骸

(Jōyō kanji)

corpse

Readings

Go-on: げ (ge)
Kan-on: かい (kai)
Kan’yō-on: がい (gai, Jōyō)
Kun: むくろ (mukuro, 骸)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
骸
むくろ Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 骸 – see the following entry.

【身むくろ】3

[noun] 躯, 骸: a dead body, a corpse

Alternative spelling
躯

(This term, 骸, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 骸 (MC heaj).

Historical readings

Recorded as Middle Korean ᅘᅢᆼ (Yale: hhay) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
Recorded as Middle Korean ᄒᆡ (hoy) (Yale: hoy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [hɛ] ~ [he̞]
Phonetic hangul: [해/헤]

Hanja

骸 (eumhun 뼈 해 (ppyeo hae))

hanja form^? of 해 (“corpse; body”)
hanja form^? of 해 (“bone”)

Compounds

걸해 (乞骸, geolhae)
망해 (亡骸, manghae)
사해 (死骸, sahae)
성해 (聖骸, seonghae)
유해 (遺骸, yuhae)
잔해 (殘骸, janhae)
해골 (骸骨, haegol)
해탄 (骸炭, haetan)
형해 (形骸, hyeonghae)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

骸: Hán Nôm readings: hài

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