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笏

hù

Character

What 笏 means

1. oldceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)

Characters built on 竹

These share the phonetic component 竹 (zhú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 符fúmark; sign; talisman
• 筑zhùfive-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 簿bùa book; a register; account-book
• 笃dǔ(bound form) sincere; genuine; (bound form) (of an illness) serious
• 簇cù(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 竺Zhúsurname Zhu; abbr. for 天竺; (archaic) Buddhism
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

Characters that look like 笏

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 婴yīnginfant; baby
• 剪jiǎn(bound form) scissors or similar tool; to cut as with scissors; (bound form) to wipe out…
• 哲zhéwise; a sage
• 契qìto carve; carved words; to agree
• 垩èto whitewash; to plaster
• 堑qiàn(bound form) moat; chasm

Sounds the same

Read hù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 护to protect
• 户a household; door; family
• 互mutual
• 沪short name for Shanghai
• 糊paste; cream
• 扈retinue
• 祜celestial blessing
• 怙to rely on; father (formal)
• 戽water bucket for irrigation
• 楛(tree)
• 瓠gourd
• 岵(literary) mountain covered with vegetation