筐 kuāng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 匡 to correct, to revise
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
筐
kuāng
basket
Character
Example phrases
- 老人把刚摘下的柿子分装进竹筐，准备送到镇上的集市。 Lǎorén bǎ gāng zhāi xià de shìzi fēnzhuāng jìn zhú kuāng, zhǔnbèi sòng dào zhèn shàng de jíshì. The old man packed the freshly picked persimmons into bamboo baskets, preparing to send them to the town market.
- 妈妈提着一筐苹果回家了。 Māma tízhe yì kuāng píngguǒ huíjiā le. Mum came home carrying a basket of apples.
- 孩子们把捡到的松果装进小筐里。 Háizimen bǎ jiǎn dào de sōngguǒ zhuāng jìn xiǎo kuāng lǐ. The children put the pine cones they found into a small basket.