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.

• 篯Jiān🔊

  surname Jian

  16 strokes

• 篰bù🔊

  sieve-like utensil

  16 strokes

• 篱lí🔊

  a fence

  16 strokes

• 篷péng🔊

  sail

  16 strokes

• 篹zhuàn🔊

  to compose

  16 strokes

• 簉zào🔊

  deputy

  16 strokes

• 簆kòu🔊

  healds of a loom

  17 strokes

• 篶yān🔊

  black bamboo

  17 strokes

• 簗zhù🔊

  erroneous variant of 築|筑[zhu4]

  17 strokes

• 篲huì🔊

  variant of 彗[hui4]

  17 strokes

• 篼dōu🔊

  bamboo, rattan or wicker basket

  17 strokes

• 篾miè🔊

  the outer layer of a stalk of bamboo (or reed or sorghum); a thin bamboo strip

  17 strokes

• 簁xǐ🔊

  sieve

  17 strokes

• 簃yí🔊

  small house connected to large one

  17 strokes

• 簇cù🔊

  (bound form) to cluster; to pile up

  17 strokes

• 簋guǐ🔊

  ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles

  17 strokes

• 簌sù🔊

  used in 簌簌[su4 su4]

  17 strokes

• 簏lù🔊

  box

  17 strokes

• 簕lè🔊

  used in 簕竹[le4 zhu2]

  17 strokes

• 簖duàn🔊

  bamboo fish trap

  17 strokes

• 簧huáng🔊

  reed (of a music instrument)

  17 strokes

• 簝liáo🔊

  bamboo receptacle used to hold meat for temple sacrifices in ancient times

  18 strokes

• 簟diàn🔊

  fine woven grass mat

  18 strokes

• 簠fǔ🔊

  basket used in state worship

  18 strokes

• 簦dēng🔊

  large umbrella for stalls

  18 strokes

• 簨sǔn🔊

  cross-beam for hanging bells

  18 strokes

• 簪zān🔊

  hairpin

  18 strokes

• 簰pái🔊

  bamboo raft

  18 strokes

• 簿bù🔊

  a book

  19 strokes

• 䉤sǒu🔊

  basket for draining rice

  19 strokes

• 簬lù🔊

  (bamboo)

  19 strokes

• 簸bǒ🔊

  to winnow; to toss up and down

  19 strokes

• 帘lián🔊

  flag used as a shop sign

  19 strokes

• 籀zhòu🔊

  (literary) seal script used throughout the pre-Han period

  19 strokes

• 籁lài🔊

  a sound

  19 strokes

• 籍jí🔊

  (bound form) book; record; register

  20 strokes

• 籊tì🔊

  long bamboo (for fishing rod)

  20 strokes

• 籑zhuàn🔊

  old variant of 撰[zhuan4]

  21 strokes

• 籒zhòu🔊

  old variant of 籀[zhou4]

  21 strokes

• 籓fān🔊

  big winnow basket

  21 strokes

• 籝yíng🔊

  old variant of 籯[ying2]

  22 strokes

• 籧qú🔊

  crude bamboo mat

  22 strokes

• 籥yuè🔊

  flute

  23 strokes

• 吁xū🔊

  sh

  32 strokes