桶
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bucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc); CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 木 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 桶
- Common rank
- #2,283
- Unicode
- U+6876
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
bucket · Heisig RSH #2443
木 tree + chop-rack
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 桶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 第一桶金 | the first pot of gold; the initial profits from an economic endeavour | |
| 马桶拔子 | toilet plunger | |
| 半桶水 | (coll.) (of one's skills, knowledge etc) limited; superficial; half-baked; sb with a smatt… | |
| 抽水马桶 | flush toilet | |
| 桶装水 | 18.9 liter bottled water (5 gallons) | |
| 大桶 | barrel; vat | |
| 水桶 | bucket | |
| 马桶 | chamber pot; wooden pan used as toilet; toilet bowl | |
| 桶口 | bunghole; see 桶孔[tong3 kong3] | |
| 木桶 | cask | |
| 马桶刷 | toilet brush | |
| 冰桶 | ice bucket | |
| 饭桶 | rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served); (fig.) fathead; a good-for-noth… | |
| 便桶 | chamber pot | |
| 坐浴桶 | bidet | |
| 桶孔 | bunghole | |
| 洗涤桶 | washtub | |
| 箍桶店 | coopery | |
| 马桶搋子 | toilet plunger | |
| 喷桶 | watering can |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 甬 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甬 sound part | path; river in Ningbo; Ningbo | |
| 通 | to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common | |
| 痛 | ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly | |
| 勇 | brave, courageous, fierce | |
| 涌 | to surge up, to bubble up, to gush forth | |
| 诵 | to chant, to recite, to repeat, to read aloud | |
| 俑 | wooden figure buried with dead | |
| 蛹 | pupa, chrysalis | |
| 捅 | to jab, to poke | |
| 恿 | to instigate, to incite, to alarm | |
| 埇 | the name of a bridge | |
| 踊 | to leap | |
| 勈 | brave |