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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篇* | 篇* | *篇
sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *签* | 签* | *签
inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
HSK 5
bamboo / CL: , ,
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *签* | 签* | *签
to sign one's name / to write brief comments on a document / inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 籤|签) / visa
HSK 5
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  *罩* | 罩* | *罩
to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it
HSK 7-9
bamboo / bamboo pole
HSK 7-9
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  *蒸* | 蒸* | *蒸
to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old)
HSK 7-9
bamboo flute / CL:
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笼* | 笼* | *笼
enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket / steamer basket
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  *策* | 策* | *策
policy / plan / scheme / bamboo slip for writing (old) / to whip (a horse) / to encourage / riding crop with sharp spines (old) / essay written for the imperial examinations (old) / upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箔* | 箔* | *箔
plaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc) / silkworm basket / metal foil / foil paper
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *简* | 简* | *简
simple / uncomplicated / letter / to choose / to select / bamboo strips used for writing (old)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *⺮* | ⺮* | *⺮
"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)
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  *篛* | 篛* | *篛
cuticle of bamboo plant
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  *筠* | 筠* | *筠
skin of bamboo
bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times) / letter; correspondence; book; document
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *栈* | 栈* | *栈
a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack
fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *汕* | 汕* | *汕
bamboo fish trap / used in names of places connected with Shantou 汕頭|汕头
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  *爿* | 爿* | *爿
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)
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  *箐* | 箐* | *箐
to draw a bamboo bow or crossbow
bamboo stick used as a toy horse
bamboo shoot
lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana)
so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted / innumerable crimes (idiom) / see also 罄筆難書|罄笔难书
bamboo joint
bamboo and wood
bamboo tube / bamboo pipe
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篃* | 篃* | *篃
a kind of bamboo
moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), used as timber etc
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *匾* | 匾* | *匾
horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笙* | 笙* | *笙
sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
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  *扦* | 扦* | *扦
short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笕* | 笕* | *笕
bamboo conduit / water pipe of bamboo
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笫* | 笫* | *笫
bamboo mat / bed mat
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槎* | 槎* | *槎
a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew
to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation
fine paper made from bamboo, used for calligraphy, painting etc / also written 毛邊|毛边
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筱* | 筱* | *筱
dwarf bamboo / thin bamboo
summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL: 張|张, 領|领
wicker or bamboo winnowing basket / dustpan
sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筵* | 筵* | *筵
bamboo mat for sitting
board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笪* | 笪* | *笪
rough bamboo mat
kite (Etymology: Kites with bamboo whistles attached produced musical sounds when flown.)
lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom) / fig. easily solved
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笋* | 笋* | *笋
bamboo shoot
bamboo pole / CL: , 個|个
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *簋* | 簋* | *簋
ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo
bamboo skewer / bamboo slip used in divination or gambling
lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth / many new things emerge in rapid succession
bamboo forest
bamboo shoot tip
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筀* | 筀* | *筀
bamboo (archaic)
conical bamboo hat
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笠* | 笠* | *笠
bamboo rain hat
bamboo fungus; veiled lady mushroom (Phallus indusiatus)
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枧* | 枧* | *枧
bamboo conduit / wooden peg / spout / same as 筧|笕
mottled bamboo
bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times)
Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筌* | 筌* | *筌
bamboo fish trap
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篠* | 篠* | *篠
dwarf bamboo
to look at sth through a bamboo tube / to have a restricted view
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箬* | 箬* | *箬
(bamboo) / skin of bamboo
black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *苠* | 苠* | *苠
multitude / skin of bamboo
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筇* | 筇* | *筇
(in ancient texts) type of bamboo sometimes used as a staff
utensil made of bamboo
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篝* | 篝* | *篝
bamboo frame for drying clothes / bamboo cage
bamboo grid for steaming food / grate; grating; grid
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笞* | 笞* | *笞
to whip with bamboo strips
bamboo raft
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箅* | 箅* | *箅
(bound form) bamboo grid for steaming food
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篁* | 篁* | *篁
(bamboo) / bamboo grove
fernleaf bamboo (Bambusa multiplex), species of bamboo native to China, suited to hedging and screening
(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殳* | 殳* | *殳
bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in , , 殺|杀 etc
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
bamboo clapper boards used in folk theater
bamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箨* | 箨* | *箨
sheath around joints of bamboo
winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笊* | 笊* | *笊
loosely woven bamboo ladle
Manchurian wild rice , aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桄* | 桄* | *桄
woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篪* | 篪* | *篪
bamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board); to count beads / (fig.) to budget; to plan (an investment)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笆* | 笆* | *笆
an article made of bamboo strips / fence
a kind of sedan chair, usu. made of bamboo and mounted on a pair of long bamboo poles
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笾* | 笾* | *笾
bamboo tazza used in ancient times to hold dry food for sacrifices or at banquets
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笥* | 笥* | *笥
square bamboo container for food or clothing
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *菎* | 菎* | *菎
beautiful jade / bamboo
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篾* | 篾* | *篾
the outer layer of a stalk of bamboo (or reed or sorghum); a thin bamboo strip
bamboo basket for rice-washing
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *簰* | 簰* | *簰
bamboo raft

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