筁
qūTraditional: 筁
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Translation
a bamboo fish trap (rare)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the bamboo radical 竹 on top, marking it as a woven bamboo implement, over 笝 as the phonetic element.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 竹 (zhú, bamboo radical) + phonetic
Stroke order
筁
Examples
。
This character is very rare.
古。
People in ancient times used a bamboo trap to catch fish.
典。
You cannot find this character in the dictionary.
竹具。
The qu is a kind of bamboo implement.
僻。
The teacher explained this obscure character.
筁 (qū) is a rare and obscure character referring to a woven bamboo fish trap. It appears in frequency data but is almost never used in modern Mandarin.
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