kuìKuì

straw basket

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
guì expensive

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgwijH[g]ruj-s basket

說文解字

《說文》:“蕢,艸器也。从艸,貴聲。臾,古文蕢。象形。《論語》曰:‘有荷臾而過孔氏之門。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

kuì, kuài straw basket Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
guì expensive

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode