I’m no expert, but it was described to me years ago by native Chinese speakers that many of the characters are written like that 🤩 “Man”, “woman”, “cart”, “gate/door”, etc. Pictograph origins🖖🏼.

Creative ngl.

That little top part (冎) is the how it was originally drawn. It’s supposed to look like a bone. It’s more pronounced in the earlier drawings.

The bottom part (which is the kanji for moon and month) as a radical often means something like “flesh”, and is present in the kanji for body parts.

So I don’t think the whole thing was intended to be the pictograph of a skellington, or at least can’t say for sure.

Odd that the ‘head’ is mirrored. The real kanji is 骨。agree it looks like a lil skeleton guy though.