bamboo shoot

笋 character breakdown

surname Yin
to administer / to oversee / to run / magistrate (old)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a system administrator.

Maud Younger hired a system administrator to care for her servers in the encampment. His pay is a banana per day, which Maud puts into a fake pig snout which acts as a kind of banana holder.
bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

= 𠂉 + + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.

Characters with 笋 as component

笋 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 笋

winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)
Chinese lettuce / celtuce / asparagus lettuce / celery lettuce / stem lettuce
lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth / many new things emerge in rapid succession
Le Duan (1907-1986), Vietnamese communist politician
springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate
edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo

Sentences with 笋

笋 currently does not appear in any sentence.