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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| laugh, smile
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: early death 夭 (here seen as heaven 天)
Bamboo that grows up to heaven? This is to laugh! |
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| class, rank, grade, equal to
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: temple 寺 (= Made of earth 土 and built with skillful hands 寸)
Put the bamboo 竹 (= the sprouts) into the earth 土 and (take care of them) with a skillful hand 寸, and (the growth) will be in the same way/class. |
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| prefix for making an order/ranking (first, second, etc)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: bow 弓 and feathered arrow λ (Variation of younger brother 弟)
With a bamboo (stick) I show my younger brother 弟 the correct order. (= his rank) |
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笔
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| pencil, pen, writing brush
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: hair 毛
Made of bamboo and at the end a tuft of hair: the brush or pencil. |
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| basket, goal
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: supervise 监 (For the cut bamboo 监[= knife刂 & half of bamboo 竹] is a bowl 皿 for its supervision)
Bamboo, that is supervised (= brought into shape) serves as a basket. |
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| to answer, reply, respond
dā, dá
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at Top bamboo 竹, below: fit/match 合 (The lid  on the pot 口)
Under the bamboo, you get fitting answer. |
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简
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| simple, uncomplicated, letter (=formerly bamboo strips)
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: gap/space 间/間 (The sun 日 shines though the gate 门/門 due to a gap.)
(With a fence, it is time-consuming to cut the elements to fit precisely and without gaps). If you build bamboo on a gap (= with spaces in between), you make it very simple. |
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| to calculate, to compute, regard as, to figure
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From top: bamboo 竹, the image of an abacus 目 [= counting board], and two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined)
I use the bamboo abacus with both hands to calculate. |
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箱
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| box, trunk, chest
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: mutually 相 (tree 木, eye 目 [here: image of a box])
It's made of bamboo or wood and looks like a box 目. It is: a box. |
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| chopstick
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: rapid, quick 快 (It becomes easier to carry your load: The feeling 忄 of the person 人 with the backpack コ is that he is quick and rapid)
From bamboo you can quickly make chopsticks. |
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| classifier for written items, sheet or paper
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: flat 扁 (Sliding oors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.)
When bamboo is flat (like a door plate), it is used for writing texts. |
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| mark, sign, talisman, to seal, to correspond to
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: pay/hand over 付 (from a person 人 to a skillful hand 寸)
(When cut in small tablets:) Bamboo can be handed over, as a sign or talisman. |
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签
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| signature, note, label, tag
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: together 佥 (A person 人 as one 一 is with three ツ together.)
Bamboo strips were set together for making a label, that was signed. |
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籍
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| registry, book or record, membership, nationality
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: 耤 (a tree 耒 used as a tally stick with many notches 丰, cut into to count things, right: old days 昔
Bamboo or tally sticks were in old days used as a registry. |
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| tube, pipe, conduit, control, to care about
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: government 官 (Under one roof 宀 with connected ノ rooms 吕) (Here: see 官 as two tubes in cross-section in a covered conduit)
Made of bamboo, the tubes are in the conduit. |
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| stupid, clumsy, foolish, silly
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: root, origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book.)
(Since they are so branched and unremovable:) Whoever thinks that the bamboo's roots can be removed is: stupid. |
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| bamboo
zhú
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The image of young bamboo shoots |
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to build, to construct, Zhú = five-string lute
zhù, zhú
竹
凡
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Above: bamboo 竹, below: 巩 (work 工, ordinary 凡 [A table 机/几 with a scratch 丶 is common.])
With bamboo and labor the scratched table was built. |
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| just before doing sth., to face sth, approach
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Left: knife, to cut刂, right: half of bamboo 竹, two mouths 口
He divided the bamboo with the knife. This he did just before giving it to the two mouths. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| plan, strategy, policy, scheme, to whip or urge
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: thorn 朿 (originally: tree 木 and pointed triangle; cf. thorn 刺)
A bamboo thorn is part of the policy plan. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| steam basket for dimsum 点心, cage
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a winding dragon ノ)
Made of bamboo and the fire dragon (=steam) comes through: The steam basket. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| arrow
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: front 前 (Where from the sheep's 羊 head, meat 月/肉 is cut刂, is the front.)
It's made of bamboo and it's the front end, which counts: the arrow. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| tube, cylinder
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: same, similar 同 (All container 冂 have only one 一 opening 口 and it is the same, similar)
Bamboo is the similar to a tube. |
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筋
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| muscle, tendon
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: ribs 肋 (= The body's part 月/肉 that resists with force 力 (against pressure) are the ribs.)
They are like bamboo('s fiber) are the body gets its strength by the: muscles and tendons. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| chip (gambling), token, ticket, to prepare
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: long life 寿 (two skillful hands 手 & 寸 are needed for Sushi 寿司 and you will have a long life.)
Made of bamboo by two skillful hands: This token. - OR: Made of bamboo and to gamble a 'long life': This token. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| sail, cloak, canopy, awning
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: encounter: 逢 (The movements of a bee 蜂 [= from blossom to blossom] mean: to encounter.)
The single fibers of the bamboo are encountering, when they are (woven) into a sail. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| sieve, filter, to sift, screening (medicine)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: master, teacher 师 (He has a knife 刂, a stick 一 and good cloth 巾)
Bamboo 竹 was cut 刂 for it and the sieve 一 is made of cloth 巾: a sieve. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| basket
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: rectify 匡 (The country 国 of the king 王 is not complete, which must be rectified.)
The bamboo needs to be rectified (= to be bent) to plait a basket. |
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to winnow, dust pan, toss (as waves)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: 其 (image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing), skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
Made of bamboo is the grain shovel for separating the "skins" (of the grain) when winnowing. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| accounting, book keeping, register
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: extensive, widespread 溥 (The water 氵 must be just now 甫 with a skillful had 寸 extensive)
Bamboo and water are needed just now and skillful hands: in accounting. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| bunch, crowded, gathered, gather foliage
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: clan, nationality 族 (It moves in one direction 方 and has lying  people or moving as fast as an arrow 矢: the clan)
The bamboo forms a 'clan', when gathered as a bunch. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| pole, mast, stick/club
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: dry 干 (laundry rack)
When bamboo becomes a laundry rack, you use it as a pole. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| a fence, hedge
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺 [you see 禸 =hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶], so that it "leaves" us.)
Use bamboo to avoid a "leaving" by building a: fence. |
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笛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| flute
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: reason 由 (.. for the field with a sprouting plant), here: 由 as a flute | with hands E ヨ at the sides.
Bamboo is used for this flute. |
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笃
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JLPT no HSK |
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| sincere, true, serious (illness)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: horse 马/馬
(The strength of) bamboo and horses are upright/sincere. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to bite, to devour
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Left: mouth 口, right: 筮 (bamboo 竹, witch 巫 [She's doing the work 工 of two persons 从], here: variant of: sqeeze in 夹)
The mouth, in which bamboo is squeezed in: is biting. |
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笠
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JLPT no HSK |
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| broad bamboo rain hat
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Top: bambo 竹, bottom: to stand 立
Under this 'bamboo' you can stand, if it is: a hat. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| reed of woodwind instrument, spring of lock
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: yellow 黄 (Together 共 the field 田 turn [in fall]: yellow.)
Bamboo that is yellow is suitable as: Reed or as a spring. |
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筝
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Guzheng (=long zither with 13 to 16 strings)
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: dispute 争 (The bent person ⺈ with a stick 亅 in hand  looking for dispute.)
Made of bamboo and sounds like a dispute, the: Guzheng. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| India 天竺 (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: two 二
Bamboo for two in Indian Buddhism. |
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笋
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JLPT no HSK |
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| bamboo shoot
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: 尹 (hand with a stick but here: with a seedling that is planted)
Bamboo is planted by hand with seedlings to become a sprout. |
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笆
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JLPT no HSK |
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| a braiding article made of bamboo strips, fence
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: to hope 巴 (Behind the doorknob 巴 you may hope.)
Bamboo hopes that it is made to a braiding article. |
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箫
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Xiāo, chinese long-flute
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: respectful, solemn 肃
Made of bamboo is the flute 丨 in the hand with four holes 灬, the: Xiāo. |
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笈
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JLPT no HSK |
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| trunks (for books)
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Left: bamboo 竹, right: to reach 及 (A hand stretched out to reach something 丿)
The bamboo has reached sth. if it became a trunk (for books). |
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笺
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JLPT no HSK |
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| comment, letter, note, note-paper
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: 戋 (two 二 halberds 戈)
Made of bamboo and cut with a halberd into two (note-) papers for the comments. |
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箍
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JLPT no HSK |
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| hoop, to bind with hoops, to tie around
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: hand 扌, 匝 (enclosure 匚, cloth 巾)
Take bamboo (bent as a ring) and by hand make a cover of cloth to get a hoop. |
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筏
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JLPT no HSK |
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| raft (of logs)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: to cut down, fell 伐 (The person 亻with the halberd 戈 is cutting down.)
The bamboo should be cut down to make a: raft. |
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筵
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JLPT no HSK |
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| bamboo mat for sitting (old expression)
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: spread, extend 延 (This movement 廴 is correct 正 for: spreading or extending.)
Made of bamboo to spread out on: the sitting mat. |
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笙
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JLPT no HSK |
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| reed mouth organ with various flutes
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Top: bamboo 竹, below: life 生 (The twig ノ at the growing plant  stands for the life.)
Bamboo gets lifely as a mouth organ. |
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JLPT no HSK |
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| very slight sound, rustling (onom.), tears streaming down
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Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: 欶 (bundle 束, to lack 欠)
The bamboo is bundled with gaps (= lacks) in between, which causes slight rustling sounds. |
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