sǔn

bamboo shoots

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

旬 sound component

  Sound component

xún

  

ten-day period

Evolution

筍 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
筍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筍 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
筍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sǔn

bamboo shoot; joint; tendon

Most common words with 筍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

芦笋

asparagus

bamboo shoot

竹笋

bamboo shoot

雨后春笋

many new things emerge in rapid succession

莴笋

celtuce

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-qʷi[n]ʔ

swinX

sǔn

bamboo sprouts


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3455th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+7B4D

Shuowen

“筍,竹胎也。从竹,旬聲。”


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