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Reflecting early Chinese material culture, the character 笥 is composed of 竹 (bamboo radical) indicating a bamboo object, and 司 as phonetic, which also means 'to manage' and hints at a container for organizing. It denotes a square or rectangular woven bamboo trunk, box, or hamper for storing clothing, food, or scrolls. In modern Chinese, it is literary and historical, appearing almost only in classical texts and idioms about scholarly knowledge stored in boxes.
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