筲
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pot-scrubbing brush made of bamboo strips; basket (container) for chopsticks; variant of 筲[shao1]
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 竹 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 筲
- Common rank
- #3,357
- Unicode
- U+7B72
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 筲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斗筲之人 | a small-minded person; a bean-counter | |
| 斗筲之器 | person narrow-minded and shortsighted | |
| 斗筲之材 | person of limited capacity | |
| 水筲 | well bucket; pail made of bamboo strips | |
| 斗筲 | an ancient bamboo container; narrow-mindedness | |
| 筲箍 | to hoop on a basket | |
| 筲箕 | bamboo basket for rice-washing |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 肖 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肖 sound part | to resemble, to look like; to be like | |
| 消 | news, rumors; to die out, to melt away, to vanish | |
| 销 | to fuse, to melt; to market, to sell | |
| 哨 | to whistle; to chirp | |
| 削 | to pare, to scrape, to trim | |
| 硝 | saltpeter; to tan leather | |
| 屑 | bits, crumbs, scraps; fragments; not worthwhile | |
| 宵 | night, evening, darkness | |
| 鞘 | scabbard, sheath | |
| 梢 | the tip of a branch; rudder | |
| 悄 | quiet, silent, still; anxious | |
| 蛸 | octopus; long-legged spider; mantis nest | |
| 峭 | steep, precipitous, rugged | |
| 逍 | to ramble, to stroll; to jaunt, to loiter | |
| 捎 | to carry, to take; to select | |
| 艄 | the stern of a ship | |
| 魈 | mischievious mountain spirit | |
| 诮 | to scold, to blame; to ridicule, to criticize | |
| 绡 | raw silk |