qiè

rattan box

A bamboo ⺮ box  provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

匚 meaning component

  Meaning component

fāng

  

box

夹 sound component

  Sound component

jiājiájià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Evolution

箧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
箧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
箧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

qiè

ratton box, suitcase, or case; chest; box; trunk; suitcase; portfolio

Most common words with 箧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

chest

翻箱倒箧

to overturn trunks and boxes

筐箧中物

a commonplace thing

倾箱倒箧

to exhaust all one has

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5474th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

Unicode

U+7BA7


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