kuāng

bamboo basket or chest

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

bamboo

匡 sound component

  Sound component

kuāng

  

correct

Evolution

筐 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
筐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
筐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kuāng

bamboo basket or chest; basket; CL:|[zhī]

Most common words with 筐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

basket

篮筐

basket

箩筐

large wicker basket

筐箧中物

a commonplace thing

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k-pʰaŋ

khjwang

kuāng

square basket


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8650% of movies

3325th most common character in movies

3419th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7B50

Shuowen

“匡,飲器,筥也。从匚,聲。筐,匡或从竹。”


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