What 縋 means
It means clinging, literally or emotionally.
An early Chinese character dictionary, the Shuowen Jiezi, defines 縋 as lowering by rope and cites 夜縋而出, a rope escape at night in ancient China's Spring and Autumn period. Japanese dictionary examples date literal 縋る to 984 and reliance on help to 1220. 糸 is the thread component; 追 supplies the Chinese sound, and 缒 is its simplified form.
In Japanese, figurative 縋る frames dependence as holding on.
It signals reliance, not neutral use.
Questions people ask
1Why does 縋 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 縋
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7E0B, then Alt+X to get 縋.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-7e0b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7e0b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
縋CSS
\7E0BJapanese text input
Enter すがる in Japanese text conversion and select 縋る.
Chinese Pinyin input
Enter zhuì or zhui4; traditional text uses 縋, simplified text 缒.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
縋
HTML hex
縋
CSS content
content: "\7E0B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B8%8B
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.