U+7BEC "篬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7BEC "篬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in Classical Chinese and classical literature, and it is composed of the bamboo radical atop the phonetic component "倉" (cāng). Pronounced "cāng" or "qiāng" in modern Mandarin, it traditionally means a dark blue or greenish black color, specifically referring to the deep shade of bamboo or related to bamboo’s hue, and it appears in historical texts and poetry as a descriptive term for such tints. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which encompasses thousands of characters shared across East Asian writing systems, and it is rarely used in contemporary everyday language but remains significant for scholars of classical Chinese and calligraphy.