Chinese bamboo-name character

In Chinese, 箊 is a character used in a bamboo name. The compound 箖箊 refers to bamboo with thin, broad leaves.

The earliest known written witness is the Eastern Han chronicle 《吴越春秋》 (“Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue”), a history of the ancient states of Wu and Yue. It says Yuan Gong takes an 箖箊 bamboo branch into a sword test with a woman from Yue. The Western Jin literary work 《吴都赋》 (“Rhapsody on the Capital of Wu”) lists 箖箊 among Wu's bamboos; the Jin-period 《竹谱》 (“Treatise on Bamboo”) describes its leaves. The plant name is the basic meaning; the sword-test tale adds a literary association.

林箊 is a recorded alternate form for the same bamboo name. Historical Chinese sound classification places 箊 in the same phonetic series as 於: the connection is sound-based, and the two characters are not interchangeable.

How do I type 箊?

Enter HYSY with Cangjie, or use a character picker. Cangjie is a Chinese input method based on character components; enter HYSY on a Cangjie keyboard. A Mandarin Pinyin input method can search yu1 (the tone-number spelling of yū), but a crowded homophone list may hide 箊.

As described in Unicode's Han guidance as of 2026-09-11, fonts can draw the same encoded Han character differently under regional conventions. A blank box means the active font lacks this glyph.