Character for a kind of bamboo

筨 is an old name for a kind of bamboo.

A bamboo treatise, an old book about bamboo traditionally attributed to Dai Kaizhi, describes a thick, straight bamboo from Nankang. Its inner membrane is white, and insects leave red marks. These details distinguish the plant by its shape, interior, markings, and provenance.

During the Song period, rhyme dictionaries—reference books that group characters by rhyme—also preserve the same bamboo meaning. Later dictionaries connect 筨 with other written forms.

How can you type 筨?

Start with Pinyin; use a broader character table if needed.

With a Chinese Pinyin input method, enter hán or the ASCII form han2 and check the candidate list. A Cantonese input method may accept ham4; its dictionary determines which characters appear.

Cangjie is a shape-based Chinese input method; a lookup reference gives HOIR for 筨. The version and whether its table includes rare characters affect the result.