What 躗 means
A defensive kick, or crooked speech. The early dictionary 說文 (Shuowen Jiezi) glosses it as a cow guarding itself with its hoof; other dictionaries record erroneous or deceptive words.
Classical use shows up early: the Zuo Zhuan (左傳), an ancient chronicle, already has 躗言, 'deceptive talk'. It is an inherited character, not an invented sign — no inventor is recorded as of 2026.
Classical, dictionary Chinese — it lives in old texts, not chat.
If it arrives alone, ask for context rather than guessing the tone.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 躗 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 躗
躗\8E97Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.