gōu

bamboo basket

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

冓 sound component

  Sound component

gòu

  

a secluded place

Evolution

篝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
篝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

gōu

bamboo basket; bamboo frame; bamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage

Most common words with 篝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

篝火

bonfire

bamboo cage

篝火狐鸣

an uprising is afoot (idiom)

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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