筌 — Chinese character
筌
quán
bamboo fish trap
- Pinyin
- quán
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 全
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 全
- Japanese
- 筌 as a kanji
Common words with 筌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 得鱼忘筌 (得魚忘筌) | dé yú wàng quán | lit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子 (Zhuāng zǐ)); fig. to take help for granted |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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