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箬

cjk unified ideograph-7bac

Bamboo-leaf character

箬 names a broad-leaved bamboo and can also refer to its leaves or bamboo skin. In Chinese compounds it names the plant, leaves for wrapping food, and bamboo-leaf hats.

Text symbol
Search it as
ruo · ruo4 · broad-leaved bamboo · 箬竹 · bamboo-leaf hat · 箬笠 · zongzi wrapping leaf · 篛
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 箬 means

It can name the plant, its leaves, and bamboo skin.

The Han-period Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, records 箬 as a Chu word for bamboo skin. Chu was an ancient Chinese state.

Where does 箬 appear?

Its compounds name the plant and things made from its leaves.

箬竹 names the bamboo; 箬笠 is a hat made from bamboo leaves; 箬叶 and 粽箬 refer to leaves used to wrap zongzi, sticky-rice dumplings.

A Tang-period fishing poem places 箬笠 in a riverside scene of reclusion. A 2024 regional account records 辽叶 as a local name for the leaf and its use in shelters.

Combination ideas

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the broad-leaved bamboo
a hat made from bamboo leaves
a bamboo leaf used for food wrapping

Questions people ask

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Why does 箬 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 箬

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7BAC, then Alt+X to get 箬.
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-7bac”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7bac, then Enter or Space.
HTML
箬
CSS
\7BAC
Mandarin pinyin
To type 箬 with Mandarin pinyin, enter ruo and select 箬 from the candidates.
Wubi
Enter TADK in a Wubi input method.
Cangjie
Enter HTKR in a Cangjie input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
箬
HTML hex
箬
CSS content
content: "\7BAC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AE%AC
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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.

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