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筏

fá
noun #40,743

Measure Word

一只竹筏 zhī

Meanings

  1. 1 raft

Examples

他们坐着竹筏顺江而下。
Tāmen zuò zhe zhúfá shùn jiāng ér xià.
They drifted down the river on a bamboo raft.
我们把木头绑在一起做了一个木筏。
Wǒmen bǎ mùtou bǎng zài yìqǐ zuò le yí gè mùfá.
We tied logs together to make a raft.

Tips

usage
Common in compounds naming the material: 竹筏 (bamboo raft), 木筏 (log raft), 皮筏 (hide/inflatable raft). The radical ⺮ hints that the earliest rafts were bamboo.

Components

radical
⺮ zhú
bamboo (top form)
Top bamboo radical ⺮, the cap form of 竹. It points to the material a 筏 was first made of — lashed bamboo poles.
phonetic
伐 fá
to fell (trees); to attack
Below sits 伐, giving the exact sound fá. It also fits the idea nicely, since you 伐 (cut down) trees and bamboo to build a raft.

Stroke Order

筏 fá