bamboo

Origin & mnemonic

The bamboo radical originates from a pictograph of the bamboo plant in oracle-bone script, with vertical strokes representing the stalk and diverging marks at the top depicting spreading leaves.

Mnemonic: The bamboo glyph looks like an upright bamboo stalk with splayed leaves fanning out at the crown.

• 箑shà🔊

  fan

  14 strokes

• 箓lù🔊

  record book; archive

  14 strokes

• 箔bó🔊

  plaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc)

  14 strokes

• 箕jī🔊

  winnow basket

  14 strokes

• 箘jùn🔊

  bamboo shoots

  14 strokes

• 箙fú🔊

  quiver

  14 strokes

• 箛gū🔊

  (bamboo)

  14 strokes

• 箜kōng🔊

  used in 箜篌[kong1 hou2]

  14 strokes

• 箝qián🔊

  pliers

  14 strokes

• 箢yuān🔊

  used in 箢箕[yuan1 ji1] and 箢篼[yuan1 dou1]

  14 strokes

• 箦zé🔊

  reed mat

  14 strokes

• 箧qiè🔊

  chest

  14 strokes

• 箨tuò🔊

  sheath around joints of bamboo

  14 strokes

• 箩luó🔊

  basket

  14 strokes

• 箪dān🔊

  round basket for cooked rice

  14 strokes

• 箫xiāo🔊

  xiao, a vertical bamboo flute

  14 strokes

• 箬ruò🔊

  (bamboo)

  14 strokes

• 箸zhù🔊

  variant of 箸[zhu4]

  14 strokes

• 范fàn🔊

  pattern

  15 strokes

• 箭jiàn🔊

  arrow

  HSK 6

  15 strokes

• 箱xiāng🔊

  box

  HSK 4

  15 strokes

• 篇piān🔊

  sheet

  HSK 2

  15 strokes

• 篓lǒu🔊

  basket

  15 strokes

• 箮xuān🔊

  bamboo flower

  15 strokes

• 箯biān🔊

  bamboo sedan chair

  15 strokes

• 箴zhēn🔊

  to warn

  15 strokes

• 箾shuò🔊

  to hit sb with a pole

  15 strokes

• 篁huáng🔊

  (bamboo)

  15 strokes

• 篃mèi🔊

  a kind of bamboo

  15 strokes

• 篆zhuàn🔊

  seal (of office)

  15 strokes

• 篌hóu🔊

  used in 箜篌[kong1 hou2]

  15 strokes

• 篑kuì🔊

  basket for carrying soil

  15 strokes

• 篨chú🔊

  crude bamboo mat

  15 strokes

• 篮lán🔊

  basket (receptacle)

  16 strokes

• 篴dí🔊

  flute

  16 strokes

• 篖táng🔊

  see 筕篖[hang2 tang2]

  16 strokes

• 篙gāo🔊

  pole for punting boats

  16 strokes

• 篚fěi🔊

  round covered basket

  16 strokes

• 篛ruò🔊

  cuticle of bamboo plant

  16 strokes

• 篜zhēng🔊

  bamboo

  16 strokes

• 篝gōu🔊

  bamboo frame for drying clothes

  16 strokes

• 篟qiàn🔊

  luxuriant growth of bamboo

  16 strokes

• 篠xiǎo🔊

  dwarf bamboo

  16 strokes

• 篥lì🔊

  bamboos good for poles

  16 strokes

• 篦bì🔊

  fine-toothed comb

  16 strokes

• 篧zhuó🔊

  creel for trapping fish

  16 strokes

• 篪chí🔊

  bamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes

  16 strokes

• 篭lóng🔊

  old variant of 籠|笼[long2]

  16 strokes