What 笈 means
A portable case for books, clothes, or ritual gear. It could also stand for the books inside.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, defines 极 as a donkey’s load. Later commentary distinguishes it from 笈, a book box carried on foot. A Sui history completed in 636 CE records scholars carrying books to teachers.
In Japanese, 笈 (おい) is the pack of a yamabushi, a Shugendō mountain practitioner. Its ritual reading treats the carrier as a womb.
Combination ideas
2Travel to study under a teacher.
A rare or secret book.
Questions people ask
1Why does 笈 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 笈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7B08, then Alt+X to get 笈.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-7b08”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7b08, then Enter or Space.
HTML
笈CSS
\7B08Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
笈
HTML hex
笈
CSS content
content: "\7B08";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AC%88
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.