What 籭 means
It names a bamboo sieve for separating coarse from fine. In the early Chinese character dictionary 《說文解字》, 籭 is described as a bamboo tool that holds back coarser material while finer material passes through.
An older or variant form, suited to historical quotation or discussion of Chinese character variants.
Questions people ask
1Why does 籭 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 籭
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7C6D, then Alt+X to get 籭.
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-7c6d”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7c6d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
籭CSS
\7C6DChinese Pinyin input
In a Chinese Pinyin IME, enter shai and check the shāi candidates; if 籭 is unavailable, use the IME's character lookup.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
籭
HTML hex
籭
CSS content
content: "\7C6D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B1%AD
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.