Cojak

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7BD1

 
a bamboo basket for carrying earth
Radical 𥫗
Strokes (without radical) 9 Total Strokes 15
Mandarin reading kuì Cantonese reading gwai6
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
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Traditional Variant(s) a bamboo basket for carrying earth

CEDICT Entries:

   [ kuì ]    basket for carrying soil
⇒    [ gōng kuī kuì ]    lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful, to fail through lack of a final effort, to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)

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