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Hanzi Character Search: 篑

7BD1
  篑
a bamboo basket for carrying earth
Radical 竹𥫗
Strokes (without radical) 9 Total Strokes 15
Mandarin reading kuì Cantonese reading gwai6
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) 簣 a bamboo basket for carrying earth

CEDICT Entries:

篑   [ kuì ]    basket for carrying soil
⇒ 功亏一篑   [ gōng kuī yī 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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