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篑

kuì

Character Traditional 簣

What 篑 means

1. basket for carrying soil

Words containing 篑

• 功亏一篑gōng kuī yī kuìlit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful…

Characters built on 贵

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

• 馈kuì(literary) to make an offering to the gods; variant of 馈
• 溃kuì(bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike…
• 匮kuìto lack; lacking; empty
• 聩kuìborn deaf; deaf; obtuse
• 蒉kuìAmaranthus mangostanus
• 愦kuìconfused; troubled

Characters that look like 篑

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

• 管guǎnto take care (of); to control; to manage
• 赞zàn(bound form) to praise; to laud (variant of 赞
• 睾gāo(bound form) testicle
• 赘zhuì(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's…
• 赝yànfalse
• 箩luóbasket

Sounds the same

Read kuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 愧ashamed
• 馈(literary) to make an offering to the gods; variant of 馈
• 溃(bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike…
• 匮to lack; lacking; empty
• 聩born deaf; deaf; obtuse
• 蒉Amaranthus mangostanus
• 喟to sigh
• 愦confused; troubled