髁
kē

thigh bone

Components

骨
骨 Meaning component
gǔ, gú bone

bone

果
果 Sound component
guǒ fruit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰloːl
kʰloːls
kʰroːlʔ

說文解字

髀骨也。从骨果聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica