also: ラオ
bamboo stem of a Japanese pipe
Refers specifically to the bamboo tube that forms the stem of a traditional Japanese smoking pipe (kiseru).
The bamboo stem of the kiseru broke.
この羅宇は煤竹でできている。
This bamboo stem is made of smoked bamboo.
Used because 羅宇 (the bamboo stem of a pipe) is long and thin, like other items counted with 本.
Standard kanji spelling for the bamboo stem of a Japanese pipe.
Alternate reading; less common than ラウ.
Katakana spelling is common in practice, especially in contexts where the kanji is obscure.
The kanji 羅宇 are ateji (phonetic equivalents) for the reading ラウ, which may derive from a Chinese or Southeast Asian word for a type of bamboo or tube. The exact origin is uncertain.