What 蹈 means
蹈 means tread or step; compounds add dance, danger, or rules.
Chinese compounds stretch its foot-action sense to dancing, danger, and following rules.
The early dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 蹈 as “to tread”; it reads 足 as the meaning part and 舀 as sound. A 172 CE stele preserves 𨂆, an older form, in a phrase about following rules.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3Dance with joy.
Face danger without holding back.
Follow rules and accepted bounds.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蹈 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 蹈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8E48, then Alt+X to get 蹈.
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-8e48”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8e48, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蹈CSS
\8E48Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蹈
HTML hex
蹈
CSS content
content: "\8E48";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B9%88
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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.