Shakuhachi character

𫁽 is a Japanese-made character for the shakuhachi, a vertical bamboo flute. Its form combines a bamboo component with 尺八, the instrument’s usual two-character name; that name refers to a traditional length of one shaku and eight sun, old length measures used in Tang-era China. The flute reached Japan in the Nara period as a court-music instrument; Edo-period monks in Japan’s Fuke Buddhist sect used it for meditation and alms.