HSK 6 · Objects

筐 kuāng “basket” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 筐 means

  1. basket

Measure word 只 zhī · 一只筐 yì zhī kuāng

How to say 筐

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale筐kuāng1st tone, high and level

筐 in a sentence

  1. 她提着一筐苹果回家了。

    Tā tí zhe yì kuāng píngguǒ huíjiā le.

    She went home carrying a basket of apples.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这个竹筐是爷爷编的。

    Zhè ge zhúkuāng shì yéye biān de.

    Grandpa wove this bamboo basket.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 筐 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 筐 (kuāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
筐kuāngbasket
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 匡to correct · kuāngSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 匡 (kuāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuāng.

How to write 筐

筐 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

筐 (kuāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 筐 (kuāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 筐

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FAQs

筐 (kuāng) means “basket”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kuāng: kuāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 筐 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 只 (zhī). For example, one basket is 一只筐 (yì zhī kuāng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 筐 from the suggestions. Typing kuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
筐 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.