帚 zhǒu
noun
a broom; a broomstick
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '帚')
Contained in
- 笤帚 a broom
- 敝帚千金 my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold; sentimental value
- 箕帚之使 your wife to serve you
- 炊帚 pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
- 箕帚妻 your wife to serve you
- 箕帚 dustpan and broom ; wife
- 执箕帚(執箕帚) to hold a dustpan and broom / I serve you dutifully
- 敝帚自珍 to value the broom as one's own; to attach value to something because it is one's own
- 筅帚 pot-scrubbing brush
- 扫帚星(掃帚星) comet; jinx; bearer of ill luck
- 扫帚(掃帚) broom
- 奉箕帚 to hold a dustpan and broom / I serve you dutifully
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 弟子職第五十九 Chapter 59: Duties of a Disciple Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 36 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 卷四百九十五 列傳第二百五十四 蠻夷三 撫水州 廣源州 黎洞 環州 Volume 495 Biographies 254: Man People 3 - Fu Shuizhou, Guang Yuanzhou, Li Dong, Huan Zhou History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 既夕禮 第十三 13. (Mourning procedures of) the evening preceding burial The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 2
- 卷三百〇一 列傳第一百八十九 列女一 Volume 301 Biographies 189: Exemplary Women 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
- 卷五十二 Scroll 52 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 《巾部》 Jīn Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 2
- 《巴部》 Bā Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 1
Collocations
- 蝇帚 (蠅帚) 手執龍鬚蠅帚 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第七十一回 Chapter 71 — count: 4
- 敝帚 (敝帚) 敝帚集 — History of Song 宋史, 卷二百〇八 志第一百六十一 藝文七 Volume 208 Treatises 161: Arts and Literature 7 — count: 4
- 帚子 (帚子) 唐僧用帚子掃了一層 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第六十二回 Chapter 62 — count: 3
- 执帚 (執帚) 童子执帚 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 既夕禮 第十三 13. (Mourning procedures of) the evening preceding burial — count: 3
- 铁帚 (鐵帚) 尾鐵帚以導之 — History of Ming 明史, 卷八十八 志第六十四 河渠六 Volume 88 Treatises 64: Rivers and Canals 6 — count: 3
- 帚星 (帚星) 帚星 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 3
- 持帚 (持帚) 又持帚 — Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字, 《卷九‧人部》 Scroll 9, Rén Radical — count: 3
- 拥帚 (擁帚) 或擁帚彗而先驅 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十七 揚雄傳 下 Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 — count: 2
- 草帚 (草帚) 一家挑出個草帚兒來 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四回 Chapter 4 — count: 2
- 芒帚 (芒帚) 白氣數道如芒帚 — History of Song 宋史, 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 — count: 2