What 箲 means
It names a bamboo brush for washing cooking pots and other vessels.
The earliest known written record of 箲 is in 《俗务要名林》, a Tang glossary from the 7th century. It records the character as a washing brush and cooking utensil, and also uses 湅箒, a two-character name for the same tool.
The Song dictionary 《广韵》 describes it as a washing brush and food utensil. Ming cooking texts use 筅箒 for a brush that removes grease and blood from fish.
Is 箲 the same as 筅?
Yes; they are alternate forms for the same brush word.
The Taiwan Ministry of Education's variant dictionary lists 箲 under 筅 as an alternate form.
A 2017 survey of Chinese dialect characters records 箲 in Gan and Wu varieties of Chinese for a bamboo brush used to wash pots and stoves; it lists 筅 as another spelling. The related form 筅 also appears in 茶筅, a tea whisk, and in Japanese ささら, a bamboo scraper. Those are uses of 筅, not extra meanings of 箲.
It is a word for a kitchen brush, suited to a dictionary, regional speech, or a discussion of cooking tools.
Who writes 箲
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1Why does 箲 show as a box?
A box means the active font lacks a drawing for 箲; it does not change which character is in the text.
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How to type or find 箲
- Also called
- 筅 · 箲帚 · 筅箒
- Search it as
- 箲 · xian · xian3 · brush for washing pots · kitchen brush character · scrub pots
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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