What 篙 means
篙 is a pole pushed against the riverbed or shore to propel a boat; 撑篙 / 撐篙 means to punt.
The Western Han text 方言 defines 篙 as a boat-pushing tool. A later addition to 說文解字, an early Chinese character dictionary, calls it “what advances a boat” and analyzes 竹 as its meaning part and 高 as its sound part.
Japanese reads it さお (“pole”) or こう; Korean Hanja, Chinese characters used in Korean, reads it 고.
Combination ideas
3To punt a boat with a pole.
A bamboo punt pole / a pole used to move a boat.
Taiwanese Hakka proverb recorded in 2024: do not judge a whole group by one case.
Questions people ask
1Why does 篙 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 篙
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7BD9, then Alt+X to get 篙.
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-7bd9”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7bd9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
篙CSS
\7BD9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
篙
HTML hex
篙
CSS content
content: "\7BD9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AF%99
1
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.