笋 — Chinese character
笋
sǔn
bamboo shoots
- Pinyin
- sǔn
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 尹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 尹
- Traditional
- 筍
- Japanese
- 笋 as a kanji
Common words with 笋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雨后春笋 (雨後春筍) | yǔ hòu chūn sǔn | lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge in rapid succession |
| 芦笋 (蘆筍) | lú sǔn | asparagus; edible young shoots of reeds |
| 竹笋 (竹筍) | zhú sǔn | bamboo shoot |
| 石笋 (石筍) | shí sǔn | stalagmite |
| 春笋 (春筍) | chūn sǔn | springtime bamboo shoots; fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate |
| 莴笋 (萵筍) | wō sǔn | celtuce; stem lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. asparagina), aka Chinese lettuce |
| 冬笋 (冬筍) | dōng sǔn | winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil) |
| 笋子 (筍子) | sǔn zi | bamboo shoot |
| 笋尖 (筍尖) | sǔn jiān | bamboo shoot tip |
| 玉米笋 (玉米筍) | yù mǐ sǔn | baby corn |
| 茭白笋 (茭白筍) | jiāo bái sǔn | edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰 (gū), aka water bamboo |
| 高笋 (高筍) | gāo sǔn | (dialect) see 茭白 (jiāo bái) |
English words written with 笋
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.