What 跌 means
It means falling, stumbling, or dropping downward.
Use 跌 for a physical fall; with a price or level it means a decline, and 跌破 marks a move below a set threshold.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary compiled around 100 CE, records 跌 under the foot radical. In its structure, 足 is the meaning component and 失 the sound component; the character is built from cues, not drawn as a person falling.
Neutral written Chinese, from a person falling to a price declining.
With a price, read it as a decline, not a physical fall.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsDon't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 跌 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 跌
跌\8DCCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.