kuì

a bamboo basket for carrying earth

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

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

貴 sound component

  Sound component

guì

  

expensive

Definitions

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kuì

a bamboo basket for carrying earth; basket for carrying soil

Most common words with 簣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

功亏一篑

to fail through lack of a final effort

basket for carrying soil

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤruj-s

khweajH

kuì

basket


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5192nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+7C23


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