What 跳 means
It means a jump or leap.
In 跳, 足 signals foot or movement; 兆 supplies sound. Older dictionaries gloss it as leaping; other records use it for a passage between boats and borrow it to write “flee.” Earlier examples include small-seal script (an early writing style) and handwriting.
Japanese uses 跳ぶ (“jump”) and 跳躍 (“leap”). As of 2026, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts may give 跳 different proportions.
Neutral in Chinese compounds; alone, it needs context.
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Who writes 跳
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Chinese compound: heartbeat
Chinese compound: skip a grade or level
Chinese compound: change jobs
Questions people ask
1Why does 跳 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.
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How to type or find 跳
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- tiao · tiao4 · jump in Chinese
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
跳CSS
\8DF3Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
跳
HTML hex
跳
CSS content
content: "\8DF3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B7%B3
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.