笧

笧 U+7B27, 笧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B27 ← 符 [U+7B26] CJK Unified Ideographs 笨 → [U+7B28]

Translingual

Alternative forms

Due to Han unification, the traditional form containing 冊 and simplified form containing 册 are encoded under the same code point. Depending on the font installed, this character may appear to be either 笧 or 笧.

Han character

笧 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹月月一 (HBBM) or 竹月廿 (HBT) or 難竹月月一 (XHBBM) or 難竹月廿 (XHBT), composition ⿱𥫗册(G) or ⿱𥫗冊(HTJK))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 880, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25938
• Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2955, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7B27

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
栅	*sʰraːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sraːns
冊	*sʰreːɡ
笧	*sʰreːɡ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 笧 – see 冊 (“book; volume; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 冊).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 笧 – see 策 (“plan; scheme; strategy; to plan; to scheme; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 策).

Japanese

Kanji

笧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative spelling of 柵 (saku): bamboo/wooden fence; fortress; weir

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: しがらみ (shigarami, 笧); しがらむ (shigaramu, 笧む)

Noun

Kanji in this term
笧
しがらみ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

笧(しがらみ) • (shigarami) 

1. Alternative spelling of 柵 (shigarami): a weir; a restraint, obstacle

Korean

Hanja

笧 • (chaek) (hangeul 책, revised chaek, McCune–Reischauer ch'aek, Yale chayk)

1. to entwine around
2. to check (a current) with a weir