筅 — 12 strokes / Radical「竹」
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- On
- セン
- Kun
- ささら
- Meaning
- a bamboo whisk
Origin
Bamboo 竹 with 先 as phonetic: bamboo split fine into a whisk, as for tea.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 茶筅ちゃせん
a tea whisk
- 筅ささら
a bamboo whisk
Example
茶筅で抹茶を点てる。
They whisk the matcha with a tea whisk.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)