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篝

gōu
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 bamboo basket; bamboo cage
  2. 2 bonfire (in 篝火)

Examples

大家围着篝火唱歌跳舞。
Dàjiā wéi zhe gōuhuǒ chànggē tiàowǔ.
Everyone sang and danced around the bonfire.
我们晚上在海滩上点起了篝火。
Wǒmen wǎnshang zài hǎitān shàng diǎn qǐ le gōuhuǒ.
We lit a bonfire on the beach at night.

Tips

history
Best known in 篝火 (gōuhuǒ, bonfire, campfire). The phrase 篝火狐鸣 (gōuhuǒhúmíng) comes from a peasant uprising where rebels lit a fire in a basket and faked a fox's cry to spread an omen.

Components

radical
⺮ zhúzìtóu
bamboo
The bamboo-top radical ⺮ (a compressed form of 竹, bamboo) marks the original meaning: a bamboo basket or cage, the frame a campfire was lit in.
phonetic
冓 gòu
phonetic element
The lower part is read gòu and supplies the sound, shifted to gōu. The same phonetic appears in 构 and 购.

Stroke Order

篝 gōu