CJK Radical Bone

⻣ is the bone radical: a special form used to index Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, not to write ordinary words. Unicode maps it to 骨 and identifies it as the simplified-Chinese variant of Kangxi Radical 188. The history of 骨 reaches oracle-bone writing—early characters inscribed on bones and shells for divination, attested in the 14th–11th century BCE; that date belongs to 骨, not ⻣.