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笏

cjk unified ideograph-7b0f

Court tablet

笏 is a narrow tablet officials held at court to note orders or prompt speech. It marked rank across Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceremonies. It is text, not emoji art; fonts draw it.

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笏 meaning · 笏板 · 手板 · hu · hol · shaku
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 笏 means

Officials held 笏 at court to note orders or prompt their own speech. The Zhouli, an early Chinese text on rites and government, records this ceremonial use; carrying the tablet also marked office.

Mandarin hù (throaty h, falling tone), Korean hol (“hole” without e), Japanese shaku (“shah-koo”). Korean records document it by 523; material and shape marked rank. 拄笏看山, “lean on the tablet, watch mountains,” evokes an official at leisure. As of 2026, shaku remains part of Shinto priests’ formal dress in Japan.

Questions people ask

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Why does 笏 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 笏

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7B0F, then Alt+X to get 笏.
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-7b0f”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7b0f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
笏
CSS
\7B0F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
笏
HTML hex
笏
CSS content
content: "\7B0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AC%8F
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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