bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location
trad. 撿骨
Also written 撿骨【jiǎn gǔ】
Characters in this word
2捡
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to pick up; to collect; to gather
- Pinyin
- jiǎn
- Traditional
- 撿
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 4274 of 2500
骨
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used in 骨碌碌[gu1 lu4 lu4], used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5], used in 骨朵[gu1 duo5]
- Pinyin
- gū
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 11981 of 2500