筐 (kuāng): basket, CL:隻|只
筐 (kuāng) is a Chinese character meaning “basket.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺮ (semantic) and 匡 (phonetic). It ranks #2908 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 筐 bamboo. Its radical form 竹 (bamboo) appears in many related characters such as 笑 (xiào, to laugh), 第 (dì, (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth")), 等 (děng, to wait for).
Definitions
- basket
- CL:隻|只
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 篮筐noun | lán kuāng | basket |
| 箩筐noun | luó kuāng | large wicker basket |
| 筐箧中物 | kuāng qiè zhōng wù | a commonplace thing |
| 一箩筐 | yī luó kuāng | bucketloads of |
| 车筐noun | chē kuāng | bicycle basket |
| 筐箧 | kuāng qiè | rectangular box or chest |
| 驮筐 | tuó kuāng | pannier |
筐 appears in 7 compound words: 29 as the first character, 71 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 筐 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了筐字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le kuāng zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "筐" in the dictionary.
秋天一到,这些果子就被摘下来,装进筐里,运往天南地北,相信它们总有一款能甜到你心里。
qiū tiān yī dào , zhè xiē guǒ zǐ jiù bèi zhāi xià lái , zhuāng jìn kuāng lǐ , yùn wǎng tiān nán dì běi , xiāng xìn tā men zǒng yǒu yī kuǎn néng tián dào nǐ xīn lǐ .
As soon as fall arrives, these fruits are picked, packed into baskets, and shipped far and wide—and we’re sure there’s one among them that will sweeten your heart.
前面九仞靠 AI,最后一筐土还得人类自己搬。
qián miàn jiǔ 仞 kào A I , zuì hòu yī kuāng tǔ hái dé rén lèi zì jǐ bān .
The first nine ren rely on AI, but humans still have to carry the last basket of soil themselves.
把一大筐的蓝莓在翠湖公园里喂了松鼠一些。
bǎ yī dà kuāng de lán 莓 zài cuì hú gōng yuán lǐ wéi le sōng shǔ yī xiē .
I fed some of the blueberries from a big basket to the squirrels at Cuihu Park.
与雾尾没有交集的两人,为了吸引其注意奇招百出,荒唐事干了一箩筐,却成效甚微。
yǔ wù wěi méi yǒu jiāo jí de liǎng rén , wéi le xī yǐn qí zhù yì qí zhāo bǎi chū , huāng táng shì gān le yī 箩 kuāng , què chéng xiào shèn wēi .
The two, who had no connection to Wu Wei, tried every trick in the book to catch his attention and got up to all sorts of absurd antics, yet to little avail.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the ⺮ (bamboo) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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