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簋

guǐ

Character

What 簋 means

1. ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles
2. round basket of bamboo

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.

• 篑kuìbasket for carrying soil
• 筀guìbamboo (archaic)

Characters that look like 簋

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

• 翼yìwing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist
• 篮lánbasket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 嚣xiāoclamor
• 霎shàall of a sudden; drizzle
• 冀jì(literary) to hope for

Sounds the same

Read guǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鬼disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc…
• 轨(bound form) rail; track; course; path
• 癸tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; tenth in order…
• 诡(bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory…
• 晷sundial
• 氿mountain spring
• 宄traitor
• 庋(literary) shelf; (literary) to store; to keep; to preserve
• 姽quiet and nice
• 佹(literary) perverse; unreasonable; (literary) eccentric; enigmatic; (literary) by chance…
• 垝(literary) dilapidated; collapsed; damaged
• 匦small box