帚
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
zhǒu zhou3
- broom
Words with 帚
- 扫帚 sàozhou broom
- 炊帚 chuīzhou pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
- 笤帚 tiáozhou whisk broom
- 筅帚 xiǎnzhǒu (dialect) pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips
- 扫帚星 sàozhouxīng comet
- 敝帚千金 bìzhǒuqiānjīn lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value
- 敝帚自珍 bìzhǒuzìzhēn to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own