jmdict 2863371 Active (id#2322487)
枯骨
【 ここつ 】
  1. [n] [form]
    • remaining bones after decay of a corpse
    • a person's weathered bones
  2. [n] [form]
    • dead person
    • the deceased
History:
    • A 2024-11-16 21:26:17 Jim Breen (id#2322487)
    • A* 2024-11-16 09:23:34 Sombrero1 (id#2322391)
    • Refs
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 枯骨　 │ 2.182 │ 54.7% │GG5, the daij's, sankoku, meikyo, oukoku, shinsen, iwakoku, gendai, koj
│ ここつ │ 1.805 │ 45.3% │
╰─ーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
Most of the time the second sense is given, with reference to 死者.

Sankoku, Meikyo and Shinsen give "literary term"
    • Diff
      @@ -12 +12,9 @@
-<gloss>weathered bones</gloss>
+<misc>&form;</misc>
+<gloss>remaining bones after decay of a corpse</gloss>
+<gloss>a person's weathered bones</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&form;</misc>
+<gloss>dead person</gloss>
+<gloss>the deceased</gloss>
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