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Kanji Detail for 筌 - "fish trap"

  • Meaning

    筌 means "fish trap."

    1. Fish trap - A cylindrical bamboo device sunk in water to catch fish.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fish trap; weir

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bamboo fish trap

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    bamboo fish trap

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    bamboo fish trap

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A bamboo implement for catching fish. Having caught the fish, one forgets the trap. Seen in (Zhuangzi). Also written as 荃.
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