What 蹂 means
It means to tread, trample, or press underfoot. An early example is in the 詩經, an early collection of Chinese poems, in a passage about treading grain to remove husks. Early dictionary tradition connects 蹂 with 禸, a component meaning a footprint or animal track, and lists 蹂 as its seal-script form.
Why does 蹂 appear in 蹂躙?
The compound turns foot-pressure into figurative harm. Chinese uses 蹂 in 蹂踐, meaning to trample, and Japanese reads 蹂 as jū in 蹂躙, meaning to overrun or violate, including rights. The same violation word is written 蹂躪 in traditional characters, 蹂躏 in simplified characters, and with Hanja 蹂躪 in Korean.
The safest reading is literary and serious when it appears in 蹂躙: trampling or violation.
Treat 蹂躙 as serious violation language, not playful exaggeration.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蹂 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 蹂
蹂\8E42Codes and encoding1 code points
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