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簋

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noun

Meanings

  1. 1 ancient round ritual food vessel with two or four handles (archaic)

Examples

西周礼制中，鼎和簋要按固定数目搭配使用。
Xīzhōu lǐzhì zhōng, dǐng hé guǐ yào àn gùdìng shùmù dāpèi shǐyòng.
In the Western Zhou ritual system, tripods and gui vessels were used in fixed combinations.

Tips

history
簋 names a specific bronze or pottery vessel of the Shang and Zhou eras and is not a free word in modern Chinese — it appears only in archaeology, museums and classical ritual texts, often paired with 鼎. It stacks the bamboo radical ⺮ over 艮 and the vessel radical 皿.
culture
Bronze 簋 held grain offerings; the number a noble could display (paired with 鼎) was strictly fixed by rank under the Zhou ritual code.

Components

radical
皿 mǐn
dish; vessel
The vessel radical 皿 at the base is the indexing radical and pictures the open container itself — the round bowl of the 簋.
semantic
⺮ zhú
bamboo
The bamboo radical ⺮ on top reflects that early grain baskets of this type could be woven from bamboo before bronze versions were cast.
semantic
艮 gěn
to stop; food element
The middle 艮 element evokes the cooked grain the vessel held; it sits between the bamboo cap and the dish below.

Stroke Order

簋 guǐ