髑
usually seen in: (literary) skull (of a dead person) (髑髅)
Closest English meanings
skull
The Calligrapher — Xiānyú Shū 鲜于枢
Yuan master of fluent running and cursive script.
Yuan calligrapher (1246–1302), master of running script/cursive script — known for 《石鼓歌》. Yuan dynasty
Cultural Story
髑 sets 骨 beside 蜀 and appears almost only as 髑髅, "a skull." It is the bleached head of the dead, the image that closes many a meditation on mortality in old poetry.
Common words & phrases
- 髑髅 skull · death's head
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In the modern world
髑 lives in 髑髅, the skull or death's head grinning from a shelf or a memento-mori painting. Rare in speech, it surfaces in gothic verse, archaeology, and the occasional horror frame. The character is pure bone, stripped of everything but form.
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