筐
kuāng · HSK 7
basket
🧺 bamboo radical ⺮ on top + 匡 kuāng below for sound = a woven bamboo basket
The 匡 part already sounds like kuāng and means a frame or box; adding the bamboo top tells you it is the woven-bamboo kind. So 筐 is literally a bamboo-framed container: a basket.
筐 — bamboo radical 竹 (⺮) + 匡 kuāng (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The bamboo radical on top signals the meaning — a woven container — while 匡 supplies the sound 'kuāng' and originally depicted a square basket itself. Over time 匡 shifted toward abstract senses like 'rectify,' so 筐 was created to keep the concrete 'basket' meaning.