笞
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to whip with bamboo strips
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 竹 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 笞
- Common rank
- #2,917
- Unicode
- U+7B1E
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 笞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 笞背 | to flog or whip the back | |
| 笞击 | to cudgel | |
| 笞刑 | whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment) | |
| 笞责 | to flog with a bamboo stick | |
| 笞骂 | to whip and revile | |
| 鞭笞 | to flog; to lash; to whip; to urge or goad along | |
| 笞辱 | to whip and insult | |
| 榜笞 | (literary) to beat; to flog; to whip | |
| 笞臀 | to whip the buttocks | |
| 笞杖 | a cudgel; CL:根[gen1] | |
| 笞掠 | to flog | |
| 笞挞 | to flog; to whip | |
| 笞棰 | to beat with a bamboo whip |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 台 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 台 sound part | platform; unit; term of address | |
| 胎 | embryo, fetus; car tire | |
| 始 | to begin, to start; beginning | |
| 抬 | to carry, to lift, to raise | |
| 怡 | gladness, joy, pleasure; harmony | |
| 苔 | moss, lichen | |
| 贻 | to hand down, to give to, to bequeath | |
| 怠 | idle; negligent, remiss; to neglect | |
| 殆 | almost, probably; danger, peril; to endanger | |
| 饴 | syrup; sweet-meat, sweet-cake | |
| 眙 | to gaze at; a place name | |
| 鲐 | mackerel; Pneumatophorus japonicus | |
| 跆 | to trample, to kick | |
| 炱 | soot | |
| 绐 | to pretend, to fool, to cheat | |
| 诒 | to bequeath, to pass on | |
| 迨 | while, until; to seize, to arrest | |
| 邰 | a state in Shanxi province; surname | |
| 骀 | tired old horse; tired, exhaused |