骨干 gǔgàn▶ tulang punggung

Stroke order

骨干 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 骨 — 9 strokes
• 干 — 3 strokes

Senses

1. diaphysis (long segment of a bone)
2. fig. backbone

Related words

• 干劲Mengemudi
• 干扰mengganggu
• 干旱kekeringan
• 干涉gangguan
• 干预campur tangan
• 才干Bakat

骨干 is pronounced gǔgàn and means “tulang punggung”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 骨干 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.