What 篐 means
Enter gu in Chinese Pinyin and select 篐 if offered.
In Chinese Pinyin, Mandarin syllables are spelled with Latin letters: 篐 is read gū, with a high, level first tone. Enter gu without the tone mark and inspect the candidates; if 箍 appears too, choose 篐 when the source uses that exact variant.
If it appears as a blank box, the text may still contain 篐 while your selected font lacks its drawing. Try a font that supports it; typefaces can also differ in the character's visible design.
What does 篐 mean?
It means a binding hoop, or tightening something with one.
Picture a ring fitted around a bucket or barrel. Split bamboo was woven into hoops for this job; metal was also used. The word extends from the object to binding or encircling with it.
The Japanese kanji 箍, read たが, means a hoop fitted around a tub or barrel. A Japanese dictionary's first cited example for that word is from 1633; the date concerns the written Japanese word, not the origin of 篐.
A specialized written character, best understood in the Chinese text or source where it appears.
Keep 篐 distinct from 箍 when reproducing a source exactly.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 篐 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 篐
篐\7BD0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.