Bone in Japanese 🇯🇵

ほね info.

– Tips to remember the Japanese word:
– One way to remember "ほね" (hone) is to associate the "ho" sound with "hollow" and the "ne" sound with "neat", imagining a hollow, neat bone.
– Visualize a bone and think of the word "hone" (as in to sharpen) in English, as sharpening a knife on a bone.

– Explanations:
– "ほね" (hone) is the Japanese word for "bone". It can refer to any bone in the body.

– Other words that mean the same thing:
– 骸骨 (がいこつ, gaikotsu) — skeleton
– 骨格 (こっかく, kokkaku) — skeletal structure

– Alternate meanings like slang:
– ほね can sometimes refer to the burden or responsibility of something, similar to "being the backbone" of an effort.

– Examples of sentences that use it:
– 彼はスケートで転んで、ほねを折った。
– Kare wa sukeeto de koronde, hone o otta.
– He fell while skating and broke a bone.

– その老女のほねは非常に弱くなってた。
– Sono rōjo no hone wa hijō ni yowakuna tte ta.
– That old lady's bones had become very weak.

– チームの成功は彼のおかげだ、彼がほねの部分だった。
– Chīmu no seikō wa kare no okage da, kare ga hone no bubun datta.
– The team's success was thanks to him; he was the backbone of the group.

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