qiè

rattan box

A bamboo ⺮ chest  also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

匧 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qiè

  

a trunk

Evolution

篋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

qiè

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

Most common words with 篋
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

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+7BCB

Shuowen

“匧,藏也。篋,匧或从竹。”


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