Kanji
Readingこつ
Frequency42%
Used in (264 in total)
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
rib; frame (of a ship)
collarbone; clavicle
steel frame; steel beam; steel girder
white (bleached) bone; skeleton
human bones
(clenched) fist; knuckles
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes; remains (of war dead)
bone marrow; medulla; true spirit; one's mind
shoulder blade; scapula
one's own flesh and blood; blood relative; kinsman; flesh and bone; (one's) body
muscles and bones; body build; physique; cartilage
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
one's old bones; old man
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
cheekbones; zygomatic bone; malar bone
(moral) backbone; spirit; soul; grit
breastbone; sternum
cartilage; nankotsu; (dish of) gristle (usu. of chicken, deep-fried)
making one's best exertions
skeletal remains; dry bones of a corpse; human skeleton
dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)
pubis; pubes
rebellious spirit
funerary urn; cinerary urn; burial urn; cremation urn
placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); depositing ashes
nasal bone
coccyx; tailbone
ossuary; crypt; charnel house
tonkotsu ramen; pork bone broth ramen
jawbone; mandible
brute courage; recklessness
phalanx (phalange) of the hand; phalanx (phalange) of the foot
boor; rustic; country bumpkin; lout
osteopathic clinic
wristbone; carpus; carpal bone
humerus (upper bone in arm)
tibia; shinbone
bone conduction; osteophony
coccyx; tailbone
sphenoid bone (of the skull)
ordinary person
sacrum; sacral bone; hermitry; appearance of a hermit; unworldliness
radius (bone of the forearm)
build; physique; appearance
box in which ashes of the deceased are kept; box in which a funerary urn is kept
scattering of ashes (cremated remains)
beef bone (used to make stock); cattle bone; bovine bone
bone; firm; uncompromising
personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character
ancient human skeleton; archaeological human remains
ilium (part of pelvis)
mandible; lower jawbone
cheekbone; zygomatic bone; malar bone
part of a person's ashes
silky fowl; silky
adaptation (of a poem, novel, etc.); recasting; rewriting; modification; rehashing
to have a deep grudge; to bear deep resentment towards someone
thousands of lives
bonesetter's clinic; orthopedic clinic
vertebra; vertebrae
carpal (any of the bones of the carpus in the wrist)
eccentric
gathering up the ashes of the deceased
bones of the upper and lower leg
bone quantity; bone mass
wooden frame
hyoid bone (of the skull)
washing of cremated bones before placing them in a funerary urn (esp. in Okinawa)
bonesetting
bone age; skeletal age
bonesetting
hipbone; innominate bone
frontal bone (of the skull)
saint's bones; sacred bones
bone spur; osteophyte
fibula; fibular; peroneal
auditory ossicles
to get the hang of; to learn the secret to
occipital bone (of the skull)
red-berried elder (Sambucus racemosa subsp. sieboldiana); Japanese elderberry
laborious work; lucubration; lucubrations; painstakingly polishing a piece of literary work
to have a consanguineous feud; to fight between family members; to have an internecine feud
temporal bone (of the skull)
cartilaginous fishes; chondrichthyans
ischium; ischial bone
navicular bone (largest wrist bone on the thumb side); scaphoid (bone)
bony fishes; osteichthyans
bone marrow suppression
chivalrous spirit
sciatica; sciatic neuralgia; ischiodynia; ischias
maxilla; upper jawbone
bones of the feet; the strength of one's feet
palatine bone (of the skull)
talus; astragalus; anklebone
acetabulum; cotyloid cavity
tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)
steel construction
calcaneus; calcaneum; heel bone
ethmoid bone (of the skull)
phalanx (phalange) of the foot
(a person with) strong moral fiber (backbone, determination)
osteopath; bonesetter
breech presentation
skin and bones
burial of ashes
thousands die to make one hero; (lit.) one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes
fortune-telling using animal bones
thousands die to make one hero; (lit.) one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
body and soul; mind and body; bottom of one's heart; depth of one's heart
lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)
pelvic floor muscle; pubococcygeal muscle; Kegel muscle
ghostly skeletal old man who emerges from wells (Japanese folklore)
bony fish; osteichthyan
bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals)
gathering up the ashes of the deceased
painstaking efforts
xiphoid (relating to the lower part of the sternum); chondroxiphoid
collecting bones and remains (e.g. on a battlefield); putting cremated remains in an urn
cremation; ashes (of a cremated person); cremated bones
backbone; spirit of defiance
losing weight and becoming bony because of grief
ossification
Carina (constellation); the Keel
manubrium of sternum; episternum
incus; anvil
spraining of a bone joint
wishbone; furcula
bones of the hand
to learn the ropes; to get the knack
indiscreet; thoughtless; absurd; laughable; disdaining; belittling
oracle bone script
rustic; boorish; uncouth; adamantly sticking to being boorish
quadrate bone
steel-frame construction work
whale-fall community; whale-fall fauna
to engrave in one's heart
blood feud; domestic discord
fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (disease of the connective tissue); FOP
osteonecrosis; avascular necrosis; bone infarction
keel (bird bone); carina
scaphoid bone (in wrist near thumb)
cuneiform (bones); sphenoid (bone)
recovering the remains of soldiers (e.g. Japanese soldiers who died abroad during WWII)
the wish to have one's ashes scattered
steel-frame construction; steel structure
bony labyrinth (of the inner ear)
bournonite; berthonite; cogwheel ore
funerary urn; cinerary urn
reliquary; feretrum
keel petal (type of flower)
muscular type (Kretschmer's typology); athletic type
lacrimal bone (of the skull)
steel-framed reinforced concrete construction
bony fishes; Osteichthyes
charnel house; ossuary
pendant containing the ashes of a deceased person
dentary bone; dentary
bone oil; clarified bone stock
baculum; os penis; penis bone
bones supporting the fins of a fish
funerary urn
Osteichthyes (class comprising the bony fishes and sometimes their descendants, i.e. tetrapods)
membrane bone
bony scale (of a fish)
fibular hemimelia; fibula agenesis
malleus (bone of the ear)
Chondrichthyes (class comprising cartilaginous fishes)
vomer (a bone of the skull)
jawbone; mandible; branchial arches (in fish); gill arches
calcaneus; calcaneum; heel bone
medullary cavity (of bone)
hipbone; innominate bone
dry bones; skeleton; wasting away