kuì

archaic
technical

Meaning of

蒉 means straw basket for carrying earth. Pronounced kuì.

  • straw basket for carrying earth

Character Info

Radical
Strokes15
Components

Stroke Order

Definitions & Examples

wéi
shān
 
wèi
chéng
kuì
 

It's like building a mountain; the work is unfinished for lack of the final basket of earth. (出自《论语·子罕》)

dài
láo
dòng
rén
mín
yòng
kuì
chéng
zhù
 

Ancient laborers used straw baskets to carry earth for building dikes.

Gōng
kuī
kuì
 

The work fails just one basket short of completion. (an idiom meaning to fall short of success for lack of a final effort)