帚
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broom
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 巾 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 帚
- Common rank
- #3,460
- Unicode
- U+5E1A
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Formation & memory
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Words with 帚
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扫帚星 | comet; person who brings bad luck; jinx | |
| 敝帚千金 | lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value; I wouldn't be … | |
| 敝帚自珍 | to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own; a… | |
| 扫帚 | broom | |
| 炊帚 | pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips | |
| 笤帚 | whisk broom; small broom; CL:把[ba3] | |
| 筅帚 | (dialect) pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips |