篱
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a fence
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 竹 +11
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 篱
- Common rank
- #2,533
- Unicode
- U+7BF1
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
fence · Heisig RSH #2549
竹 bamboo + 离 leave
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 篱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草绿篱莺 | (bird species of China) eastern olivaceous warbler (Iduna pallida) | |
| 寄人篱下 | to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity | |
| 赛氏篱莺 | (bird species of China) Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama) | |
| 树篱 | hedge | |
| 针线箔篱 | (dialect) wicker sewing basket | |
| 傍人篱壁 | to depend on others | |
| 羊触藩篱 | lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible… | |
| 围篱 | fence; paling | |
| 靴篱莺 | (bird species of China) booted warbler (Iduna caligata) | |
| 笆篱子 | (dialect) prison | |
| 篱垣 | fence; hedge | |
| 竹篱笆 | fence | |
| 箔篱 | (dialect) partition or screen made of plaited bamboo (or rushes, grain stalks etc); a weir… | |
| 藩篱 | hedge; fence; (fig.) barrier | |
| 栅篱 | hedge; fence | |
| 樊篱 | (lit.) fence; hedge; (fig.) restriction | |
| 篱笆 | fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) | |
| 笊篱 | strainer (made of bamboo, wicker, or wire) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 离 — compare how they read.