What 笮 means
It names bamboo objects and can mean pressure or narrowness. zé covers roof matting, an arrow case, “press,” and “narrow”; zhà covers a pressing vessel or squeezing; zuó covers bamboo rope.
The earliest specific form found here is a Warring States Chu-slip form labeled Bao 2.277. Later records connect the character to southwest bamboo-rope crossings and the Han-era 笮都 regional name. The sources checked name no single inventor, as of 2026.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2zuó qiáo — a bridge made with bamboo rope.
zé mǎ — a horse of the ancient 笮 region.
Questions people ask
1Why does 笮 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 笮
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7B2E, then Alt+X to get 笮.
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-7b2e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7b2e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
笮CSS
\7B2EPinyin input
Try zé, zuó, or zhà for the surrounding word, then pick 笮 from the IME candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
笮
HTML hex
笮
CSS content
content: "\7B2E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AC%AE
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.