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筐

kuāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Measure word 只

筐 (kuāng) means "basket". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 筐 means

1. basket

Words starting with 筐

• 筐箧kuāng qièrectangular box or chest
• 筐箧中物kuāng qiè zhōng wùa commonplace thing

Words containing 筐

• 箩筐luó kuānglarge wicker basket
• 篮筐lán kuāngbasket
• 车筐chē kuāngbicycle basket
• 驮筐tuó kuāngpannier; double basket slung across pack animal
• 一箩筐yī luó kuāngbucketloads of; in large quantities; extremely

Characters built on 匡

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

• 框kuàngframe (e.g. door frame); casing; fig. framework
• 眶kuàng(bound form) eye socket; Taiwan pr. kuāng
• 诓kuāngto mislead; to swindle
• 哐kuāng(onomatopoeia) crash; bang; clang

Characters that look like 筐

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

• 盟méngoath; pledge; union
• 剪jiǎn(bound form) scissors or similar tool; to cut as with scissors; (bound form) to wipe out…
• 筒tǒngtube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
• 翌yìbright; tomorrow
• 雳lìused in 霹雳
• 笺jiānletter; note-paper

Sounds the same

Read kuāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哐(onomatopoeia) crash; bang; clang
• 匡(literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (colloquial) to calculate roughly…
• 诓to mislead; to swindle
• 恇to fear; apprehensive
• 劻zealous
• 洭ancient name of a river 洭河; (used in ancient place names)
• 軭to spoil (Cant.); to ruin; to warp (car wheel)

Where 筐 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kuà–kū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kuāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.