What 跴 means
It carries a foot-action sense; compounds supply the rest.
Its basic sense is stepping on or treading. 跴緝 means tracking someone down and arresting them; the older theater term 跴蹻 names wooden false feet.
Rare and dictionary-like.
For ordinary writing, 踩 is the familiar form.
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsOn its own
Step on or tread.
In 跴緝
Track down and arrest someone.
In 跴蹻
Wooden false feet in an old theater term.
Cantonese: 跴單車
Ride a bicycle; a Cantonese dictionary records this sense as of 2026.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 跴 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 跴
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8DF4, then Alt+X to get 跴.
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-8df4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8df4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
跴CSS
\8DF4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
跴
HTML hex
跴
CSS content
content: "\8DF4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B7%B4
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On screen
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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.