gōu
bamboo basket
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 冓 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤ(r)o | kuw | gōu | bamboo cage |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2814% of movies
3146th most common character in movies
4336th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+7BDD |
Shuowen | “篝,笿也,可熏衣。从竹,冓聲。宋、楚謂竹篝牆以居也。” |
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