What 蹾 means
It covers a crouch and a forceful downward movement.
A late Ming Chinese novel, Jin Ping Mei, uses 蹾 beside 蹲; a study links the spelling to Mandarin dūn (“doon,” high and level).
Dictionaries record the forceful sense; a 2024 Sichuan-dialect study records 坐蹾, a hard sit-down.
Literary or dialectal; in routine chat, it looks like a deliberate word choice.
Check the phrase: it can mean crouch or land hard.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3Crouch to look for something.
Sit down hard.
Drop or slam forcefully.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蹾 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 蹾
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8E7E, then Alt+X to get 蹾.
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-8e7e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8e7e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蹾CSS
\8E7EPinyin
To type 蹾 with Chinese Pinyin (Mandarin in Latin letters), enter dun; 蹲 is a competing candidate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蹾
HTML hex
蹾
CSS content
content: "\8E7E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B9%BE
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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.