笋

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bamboo shoot

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

⺮ meaning “bamboo” + 尹 sound ( yǐn )

Components ⺮尹

bamboo shoot · Heisig RSH #2230

竹 bamboo + 尹 overseer

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
雨后春笋	yǔ hòu chūn sǔn	lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge …
玉米笋	yù mǐ sǔn	baby corn
笋子	sǔn zi	bamboo shoot
高笋	gāo sǔn	(dialect) see 茭白[jiao1 bai2]
石笋	shí sǔn	stalagmite
春笋	chūn sǔn	springtime bamboo shoots; fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate
竹笋	zhú sǔn	bamboo shoot
笋尖	sǔn jiān	bamboo shoot tip
冬笋	dōng sǔn	winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come o…
芦笋	lú sǔn	asparagus; edible young shoots of reeds
黎笋	Lí Sǔn	Le Duan (1907-1986), Vietnamese communist politician
茭白笋	jiāo bái sǔn	edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo
莴笋	wō sǔn	celtuce; stem lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. asparagina), aka Chinese lettuce

Characters sharing the sound component 尹 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
尹 sound part	yǐn	to govern, to oversee; director
伊	yī	he she; this, that; used in transliterations