柜guì
cabinet, cupboard, wardrobe; shop counter. 8 strokes, radical 木, first met in HSK 5.
How to write 柜
Strokes 1–4 write 木, then strokes 5–8 write 巨.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 柜 · the stroke-order rules
What 柜 is made of
木 (mù, tree) and 巨 (jù, large).
木 carries the meaning — wood — and 巨 carries the sound.
Words that use 柜
| 柜子 | cabinet, cupboard 指存放物品的带门家具 母亲把调味罐归入厨房的柜子。Mother put the seasoning jars back into the kitchen cabinet. Lesson 429, 黎庶起居 · 公道通达与宏规盛业 · Equitable Consensus & Strategic Horizons |
| 书柜 | bookcase 指专门用来存放书籍的柜子 书柜上摆放着农技手册。Farming manuals sat on the bookcase. Lesson 485, 耕墨抚灾 · 文心雅韵与躬行敏求 · Refined Arts & Resourceful Deeds |
Characters that share the sound part 巨
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 木
All 67 of them, and what the radical means, on the 木 radical page.