What 篝 means
篝 means a fire basket or its fire. Japanese reads it かがり (kagari) for the flame and ふせご (fusego) for a basket cover. The Man’yōshū, a Japanese poetry collection, writes kagari as 可我理 in the late 8th century; 新撰字鏡 records the basket sense around 898–901. 篝屋 was a watchfire guardhouse.
In Chinese, 篝火 means a fire covered by a bamboo basket or an outdoor bonfire. The Shiji, an early Chinese history, tells how rebels used a night fire and staged fox call to tell Qin soldiers Chen Sheng would rule.
In Japanese cormorant fishing, handlers use trained diving birds to catch ayu, a river fish; 篝火 lights the boat and draws fish to the surface. Much of the method follows Edo-period practice (1603–1867).
In Japanese, 篝 is literary or technical; hiragana かがり is plainer.
Who writes 篝
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Questions people ask
1Why does 篝 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.
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How to type or find 篝
- Also called
- kagari · kagaribi · fusego
- Search it as
- gouhuo · かがり · bonfire · fire basket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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