骨头

• 拼音: gǔ tou
• 汉字拆解: 骨 = pictograph of bones/skeleton; 头 = noun suffix making it a colloquial everyday word

含义

Bone. The hard tissue forming the skeleton of vertebrates.

Used literally for bones in the body and also in cooking (骨头汤, bone broth). Figuratively, it can describe a person's character or toughness: 硬骨头 (a tough person, literally 'hard bone'). Also used in the idiom 鸡蛋里挑骨头 (to find fault with everything, literally 'picking bones from an egg').

例句

1. 小狗最喜欢啃骨头了。
2. 他摔倒后骨头受了伤。
3. 多喝牛奶对骨头有好处。

用法指南

语境: medical, everyday

语气: colloquial

正确说法

• 他的骨头还没有完全长好。(His bones haven't fully healed yet.)
• 这道排骨汤要先把骨头煮一下。(For this rib soup, you need to boil the bones first.)

错误说法

• 我的骨头很累 (Bones don't get tired — use 身体 for body or 腿 for legs; say 我浑身酸痛 for 'my whole body aches')

起源与历史

骨 (bone, a pictograph of skeletal remains) + 头 (head/noun suffix). 头 here functions as a colloquial noun suffix, softening the word for everyday use.

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal