bamboo

Origin & mnemonic

The bamboo radical originates from a pictograph of the bamboo plant in oracle-bone script, with vertical strokes representing the stalk and diverging marks at the top depicting spreading leaves.

Mnemonic: The bamboo glyph looks like an upright bamboo stalk with splayed leaves fanning out at the crown.

• 箭jiàn🔊

  arrow

  HSK 6

  15 strokes

• 箱xiāng🔊

  box

  HSK 4

  15 strokes

• 篇piān🔊

  sheet

  HSK 2

  15 strokes

• 篓lǒu🔊

  basket

  15 strokes

• 箮xuān🔊

  bamboo flower

  15 strokes

• 箯biān🔊

  bamboo sedan chair

  15 strokes

• 箴zhēn🔊

  to warn

  15 strokes

• 箾shuò🔊

  to hit sb with a pole

  15 strokes

• 篁huáng🔊

  (bamboo)

  15 strokes

• 篃mèi🔊

  a kind of bamboo

  15 strokes

• 篆zhuàn🔊

  seal (of office)

  15 strokes

• 篌hóu🔊

  used in 箜篌[kong1 hou2]

  15 strokes

• 篑kuì🔊

  basket for carrying soil

  15 strokes

• 篨chú🔊

  crude bamboo mat

  15 strokes

• 篮lán🔊

  basket (receptacle)

  16 strokes

• 篴dí🔊

  flute

  16 strokes

• 篖táng🔊

  see 筕篖[hang2 tang2]

  16 strokes

• 篙gāo🔊

  pole for punting boats

  16 strokes

• 篚fěi🔊

  round covered basket

  16 strokes

• 篛ruò🔊

  cuticle of bamboo plant

  16 strokes

• 篜zhēng🔊

  bamboo

  16 strokes

• 篝gōu🔊

  bamboo frame for drying clothes

  16 strokes

• 篟qiàn🔊

  luxuriant growth of bamboo

  16 strokes

• 篠xiǎo🔊

  dwarf bamboo

  16 strokes

• 笃dǔ🔊

  (bound form) sincere; genuine

  16 strokes

• 篥lì🔊

  bamboos good for poles

  16 strokes

• 篦bì🔊

  fine-toothed comb

  16 strokes

• 篧zhuó🔊

  creel for trapping fish

  16 strokes

• 篪chí🔊

  bamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes

  16 strokes

• 篭lóng🔊

  old variant of 籠|笼[long2]

  16 strokes

• 篯Jiān🔊

  surname Jian

  16 strokes

• 篰bù🔊

  sieve-like utensil

  16 strokes

• 篱lí🔊

  a fence

  16 strokes

• 篷péng🔊

  sail

  16 strokes

• 篹zhuàn🔊

  to compose

  16 strokes

• 簉zào🔊

  deputy

  16 strokes

• 簆kòu🔊

  healds of a loom

  17 strokes

• 篶yān🔊

  black bamboo

  17 strokes

• 簗zhù🔊

  erroneous variant of 築|筑[zhu4]

  17 strokes

• 篲huì🔊

  variant of 彗[hui4]

  17 strokes

• 篼dōu🔊

  bamboo, rattan or wicker basket

  17 strokes

• 篾miè🔊

  the outer layer of a stalk of bamboo (or reed or sorghum); a thin bamboo strip

  17 strokes

• 簁xǐ🔊

  sieve

  17 strokes

• 簃yí🔊

  small house connected to large one

  17 strokes

• 簇cù🔊

  (bound form) to cluster; to pile up

  17 strokes

• 簋guǐ🔊

  ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles

  17 strokes

• 簌sù🔊

  used in 簌簌[su4 su4]

  17 strokes

• 簏lù🔊

  box

  17 strokes