篟

A bamboo name and a description of dense growth.

The older compound 篟竹 names a kind of bamboo. Later Chinese character dictionaries keep the bamboo senses: 《廣韻》 glosses 篟 as “green bamboo,” while 《玉篇》 and 《集韻》 also describe bamboo growing thickly.

A pre-Tang record appears in 《竹譜》, a catalogue of bamboo traditionally linked to the Jin dynasty, though its authorship and era are disputed. It lists 篟竹, connects it with Xie Lingyun’s literary work 山居賦, and records 檀纂竹 as another name.