笋
bamboo shoot
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How 笋 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 尹 (phonetic, yǐn)
components: ⺮ 尹
How to remember it
bamboo shoot · Heisig RSH #2230
竹 bamboo + 尹 overseer
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 尹
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 尹 (yǐn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尹 sound component | yǐn | to govern, to oversee; director |
| 伊 | yī | he she; this, that; used in transliterations |
Words containing 笋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雨后春笋 | yǔ hòu chūn sǔn | lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge … |
| 玉米笋 | yù mǐ sǔn | baby corn |
| 笋子 | sǔn zi | bamboo shoot |
| 高笋 | gāo sǔn | (dialect) see 茭白[jiao1 bai2] |
| 石笋 | shí sǔn | stalagmite |
| 春笋 | chūn sǔn | springtime bamboo shoots; fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate |
| 竹笋 | zhú sǔn | bamboo shoot |
| 笋尖 | sǔn jiān | bamboo shoot tip |
| 冬笋 | dōng sǔn | winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come o… |
| 芦笋 | lú sǔn | asparagus; edible young shoots of reeds |
| 黎笋 | Lí Sǔn | Le Duan (1907-1986), Vietnamese communist politician |
| 茭白笋 | jiāo bái sǔn | edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo |
| 莴笋 | wō sǔn | celtuce; stem lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. asparagina), aka Chinese lettuce |