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round-shaped bamboo basket

HSK 10
キョ
Notes
Historical Evolution
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Bronze
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Bronze
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
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Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
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Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Regular
Modern
Chinese
[jǔ]
round bamboo basket
Japanese
(rare) (rare) (rare) (rare) (rare) はこ ハコ 同音

noun

  1. box; case; chest; package; pack; crate
  2. car (of a train, etc.)
  3. shamisen case; shamisen
  4. colloquial public building; community building (often written as ハコ)
  5. archaic man who carries a geisha's shamisen
  6. archaic receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces)

suffix

  1. counter for boxes (or boxed objects)
Example Sentences
Japanese Names
はこざき
Hakozaki surname