What 跭 means
It describes standing upright or being unable to advance.
跭𨇯 is the documented compound for this sense. The earliest dictionary record is in Guangyun, a Chinese dictionary compiled around 1008 during the Song dynasty. 足 marks foot or movement; 夅 cues pronunciation.
A 1898 Jiaying Prefecture Gazetteer, a local history-and-geography book, groups 跭𨇯 with 栙𨇯 and 舽艭 by sound despite different meaning components.
Dictionary and historical-text register; specialized rather than everyday.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsMessage contains 跭𨇯
The documented compound describes standing upright or being unable to advance.
Someone sent me 跭 alone
Its dictionary sense does not reveal why; ask for context.
Combination ideas
1Documented compound: standing upright or unable to advance.
Questions people ask
1Why does 跭 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 跭
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8DED, then Alt+X to get 跭.
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-8ded”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8ded, then Enter or Space.
HTML
跭CSS
\8DEDCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
跭
HTML hex
跭
CSS content
content: "\8DED";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B7%AD
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.