帚

zhǒu

broom

Radical: 巾 Strokes: 8

Structure: Top-middle-bottomFrequency: Less common

Same radical

市布师带常帝席帐帖幕巾希

Same radical

市布师带常帝席帐帖幕巾希帽币帮

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Character Decomposition

帚=彐+冖+巾

Etymology

A hand 巾 holding a broom with the head 彐 held up

Meanings

broom

zhǒu

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Words with 帚 44 total

pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips炊帚chuī zhou broom扫帚sào zhou whisk broom · small broom笤帚tiáo zhou (dialect) pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips筅帚xiǎn zhǒu comet · person who brings bad luck; jinx扫帚星sào zhou xīng

Idioms with 帚 14 total

lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value · I wouldn't be parted with it for anything.敝帚千金bì zhǒu qiān jīn to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own · a sentimental attachment敝帚自珍bì zhǒu zì zhēn