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尸骨
shī​gǔ

skeleton of the dead

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
尸骨 屍骨 shī​gǔ
skeleton of the dead
The bones remaining after a body has decomposed.
corpse
Used metonymically to refer to the body of a deceased person, especially in set phrases.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.86 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.40 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 尸骸 shī​hái

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)