verb
to collect the bones of a dead body after it has been buried for some time (syn.) 抾金, 抾骨頭, 抾骨头, 抾骨, 捡金, 执骨, 撿金, 起骨, 執骨
撿骨 [捡－]
Jyutping Pinyin
jiǎn gǔ
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location