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筷

kuài

HSK 3 Character

What 筷 means

1. chopstick

Example sentences

• 筷子怎幺用？
  How do I use chopsticks?
• 用筷子吃饭难吗？
  Yòng kuàizi chīfàn nán ma?
  Is eating with chopsticks difficult?
• 露西不会用筷子。
  Lucy cannot use chopsticks.
• 一双红筷子破断了。
  One pair of red chopsticks broke.
• 你会用筷子吃饭吗？
  Do you know how to eat with chopsticks?
• 我们用筷子，不用刀叉。
  Wǒmen yòng kuàizi, bù yòng dāochā.
  We use chopsticks in place of knives and forks.

Words starting with 筷

• 筷子kuài zichopsticks
• 筷子腿kuài zi tuǐ(colloquial) skinny legs
• 筷子芥kuài zi jièArabis, a genus of Brassica family including cress

Words containing 筷

• 碗筷wǎn kuàibowl and chopsticks; tableware
• 公筷gōng kuàiserving chopsticks
• 免洗筷miǎn xǐ kuài(Taiwan) disposable chopsticks
• 火筷子huǒ kuài zifire tongs; hair curling tongs
• 环保筷huán bǎo kuàireusable chopsticks (Tw)
• 卫生筷wèi shēng kuàidisposable chopsticks
• 公筷母匙gōng kuài mǔ chí(Taiwan) serving chopsticks and serving spoons used in communal dining to promote hygiene
• 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niánglit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother…

Characters that look like 筷

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

• 箔bóplaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc); silkworm basket; metal foil
• 霆tíngclap of thunder
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 筱xiǎodwarf bamboo; thin bamboo
• 粱liángsorghum
• 獒áo(bound form) mastiff

Sounds the same

Read kuài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 块lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc…
• 快rapid; quick; speed
• 会(bound form) to reckon accounts
• 侩broker
• 脍chopped meat or fish
• 哙throat; to swallow
• 浍drain; stream
• 廥barn; granary
• 旝(literary) standard; banner (raised for battle); (literary) catapult, or a rock launched…
• 鬠to make a top knot
• 鲙used in 鲙鱼; minced or diced fish (variant of 脍
• 狯crafty; cunning