竹 部首 118 — bamboo

Where the shape comes from

Two bamboo stalks side by side, each with a pair of leaves drooping from the node. As a header the stalks shorten to ⺮. Because books were written on bamboo slips and many tools were cut from it, ⺮ heads 笑, 等, 第, 筷, 算.

汉字 filed under 竹

• 答dá (second tone, rising) dā (first tone, high and level)to answer, to reply; an answer; (dā) to respond to, to agree (in 答应)12