Keyword
a bamboo basket for carrying soil
- Frequency
- #5446
- Strokes
- 15
Readings
kuì
Mnemonic
⺮ (bamboo) gives the meaning and 贵 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
功亏一篑
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful; to fail through lack of a final effort; to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)