fine-toothed comb

A bamboo ⺮ hair  comb;  provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

囟 meaning component

  Meaning component

xìn

  

fontanel

比 sound component

  Sound component

  

to compare

Evolution

篦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
篦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fine-toothed comb; comb hair; to comb

Most common words with 篦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to comb

篦子

grate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5946th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+7BE6

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“篦,導也。今俗謂之篦。从竹,聲。”


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