kuì

straw basket

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

貴 sound component

  Sound component

guì

  

expensive

Evolution

蕢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蕢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蕢 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuì

edible amaranth; straw basket; Amaranthus mangostanus

() 

Kuì

surname Kui

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ruj-s

gwijH

kuì

basket


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7710th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+8562

Shuowen

“蕢,艸器也。从艸,貴聲。臾,古文蕢。象形。《論語》曰:‘有荷臾而過孔氏之門。’”


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