筍
sǔn

bamboo shoots

笋 筍 sǔn
bamboo shoot
bamboo shoot; edible young sprout of bamboo
young and tender
young and tender; small and new, specifically, used to describe poultry like chicken or duck
joint
(bound form) a joint in woodwork where a protrusion fits into a hole; same as 榫 sǔn
crossbar
(bound form) a horizontal wooden bar used to hang bells or chimes in ancient music
shoot-shaped
(bound form) something shaped like a bamboo shoot, such as a stalagmite

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Synonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,455th most common 5.58 per million
Movie subtitles
3,757th most common 0.940 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.55 per million

Details
Simplified
笋
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7B4D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)