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笥

sì

Character

What 笥 means

1. square bamboo container for food or clothing

Words containing 笥

• 腹笥便便fù sì pián piána learned person (idiom)
• 橐笥tuó sìbag; satchel
• 箪笥dān sìbamboo box; vessels for holding food
• 箧笥qiè sìbamboo box for holding books, clothes etc

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.

• 第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六…
• 籍jí(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 笛díflute
• 篱lía fence
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat
• 笞chīto whip with bamboo strips
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 笈jítrunks (for books)

Sounds the same

Read sì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 四four; 4
• 似to seem; to appear; to resemble
• 寺Buddhist temple; mosque; government office (old)
• 肆four (banker's anti-fraud numeral); unrestrained; wanton
• 饲to raise; to rear; to feed
• 巳6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake…
• 嗣succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition)
• 食to feed (a person or animal)
• 伺to watch; to wait; to examine
• 祀to sacrifice; to offer libation to
• 泗nasal mucus
• 厕used in 茅厕