bamboo shoot

筍 character breakdown

ten days / ten years / full period

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to fast for ten days.

Xu Xian (xu) has been fasting for ten days now (旬). He tries to get by just by absorbing the sun's (日) energy, but as he is sun bathing in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) and a fat elephant (勹) walks by he cannot help but bite the elephant's leg.
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 筍 as component

Fraxinus bungeana

Words with 筍

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

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