noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 髑髅: a skull (of a dead person)

Examples

庄子髑髅
Zhuāngzǐ zhī Chǔ, jiàn dúlóu.
Zhuangzi traveled to Chu and saw a skull by the road.
Dúlóu cháng yòng zuò wēixiǎn jǐnggào de biāozhì.
A skull is often used as a danger warning symbol.

Tips

culture
appears only in 髑髅, a literary word for a bare skull. The image is famous from a 庄子 parable where the philosopher converses with a roadside skull about life and death.

Components

radical
bone
Left is the bone radical , a joint above the flesh sign. It marks the character as something made of bone — here the bare bone of the head, the skull.
phonetic
shǔ
Shu (phonetic)
Right is , here only for sound, giving the dú reading after a shift. The same phonetic appears in (alone) and (candle).

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