What 覻 means
Try qu1 or qu4 in a Mandarin Pinyin input method.
These are tone-number inputs for the readings qū and qù; if your input method ignores tone numbers, enter qu and check its candidates.
What does 覻 mean?
It means peeping or watching secretly.
An early Chinese dictionary, 《說文解字》, records related form 覰 in 121 CE with a gloss meaning “to watch or observe.” Later dictionary entries gloss 覰 as secret watching; literary and dialect records extend the variant family to looking, watching for something, and squinting. The date anchors an early record for a related form, not a first-attestation date for the exact spelling 覻.
Why is 覻 missing from my font?
Your font may not include this Han character.
Fonts draw this glyph, so stroke details can vary; a font without 覻 may show a missing-glyph box or another fallback mark.
Literary and specialized; choosing 覻 is a deliberate written-form choice.
Preserve the form used by the source text; dictionary links alone do not make spellings interchangeable.
Questions people ask
1Why does 覻 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 覻
覻\89BBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.