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篑

kuì

a bamboo basket for carrying soil

🔤 Pictophonetic: ⺮ (bamboo) provides meaning, 贵 provides pronunciation

HSK 15 strokes Uncommon (52%)

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Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

expensive, costly; valuable, precious

⿱⺮贵 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

zhú

⺮

bamboo; flute

📷 Pictographic: Two stalks of bamboo; see 竹

6 strokes

guì

贵

expensive, costly; valuable, precious

🔤 Pictophonetic: money

9 strokes HSK 2

⿱中一

Radical component

bèi

贝

sea shell; money, currency

📷 Pictographic: A sea shell, once used as currency

4 strokes HSK 5

jiōng

冂

wide

2 strokes

rén

人

man, person; people

📷 Pictographic: The legs of a human being

2 strokes HSK 1

Words Using 篑 (2)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

篑 ↗

kuì

basket for carrying soil

kuì

篑 ↗

basket for carrying soil

功亏一篑 ↗

gōngkuīyīkuì

lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)

gōngkuīyīkuì

功亏一篑 ↗

lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)