Old furniture writing used this character for what we now write as a counter or stand, 台.
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枱 is an old variant not used independently in modern standard Chinese. The 'counter / stand / table' sense is now written 台 (as in 柜台 'shop counter', 写字台 'writing desk'); the traditional furniture form is 檯.
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Obsolete variant — appears in old texts and variant-character notes; use 台 today.
