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笚

cjk unified ideograph-7b1a

Han character 笚

笚 has three dictionary senses: bamboo striking bamboo, a kind of bamboo, and a bamboo rope for mooring a boat. Dialect records also apply it to a basket or wooden-bucket handle and a bamboo duster. Its written trail reaches back to an inventory on bamboo strips.

Text symbol
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笚 · dā · xiá · nà · 笝 · 筪 · bamboo striking bamboo · type of bamboo
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 笚 means

It names a bamboo clash, a bamboo kind, or a mooring rope.

The oldest written record of 笚 is catalogued as 仰25.20 in the Yangtianhu Chu slips, a burial inventory written on bamboo strips during the middle-to-late Warring States period in China.

The dialect meanings of 笚 recorded in 2017 include a basket or wooden-bucket handle in Xiamen and a bamboo duster in Ningbo.

Its record is chiefly lexicographic and regional; alone, 笚 leaves readers guessing which sense is intended.

Do not send 笚 alone when the exact sense matters; the reader cannot tell which one you mean.

Questions people ask

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Why does 笚 show as a box?

A box usually means the current font lacks a glyph for 笚; the stored text still contains the same character.

How to type 笚

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7B1A, then Alt+X to get 笚.
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-7b1a”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7b1a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
笚
CSS
\7B1A
How to type 笚 with Pinyin
In a Chinese Pinyin input method, try da, xia, or na; choose the candidate that matches the intended sense.
dā (Pinyin da)
For the dictionary sense of bamboo striking bamboo, select 笚.
xiá (Pinyin xia)
For a kind of bamboo, dictionaries list 笚 and the related form 筪.
nà (Pinyin na)
For a bamboo mooring rope, dictionaries list 笚 and the related form 笝.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
笚
HTML hex
笚
CSS content
content: "\7B1A";
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URL encoded
%E7%AC%9A
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On screen
1
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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