筲 — Chinese character
筲
shāo
basket, bucket
- Pinyin
- shāo
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 肖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 肖
Common words with 筲
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 筲箕 | shāo jī | bamboo basket for rice-washing |
| 斗筲 | dǒu shāo | an ancient bamboo container; narrow-mindedness |
| 斗筲之人 | dǒu shāo zhī rén | a small-minded person; a bean-counter |
| 斗筲之器 | dǒu shāo zhī qì | person narrow-minded and shortsighted |
| 斗筲之材 | dǒu shāo zhī cái | person of limited capacity |
| 水筲 | shuǐ shāo | well bucket; pail made of bamboo strips |
| 筲箍 | shāo gū | to hoop on a basket |
筲 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
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.