Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: The first character ( ç ) is a semantic-phonetic compound with a phonetic part meaning `` quick '' ( å `` ) , and a semantic part meaning `` bamboo '' ( ç `` ) .
Simplified: It is a word made of different parts ; it has the phonetic part of '' å `` '' , which means quick , and a semantic part , ç `` , meaning bamboo .