What 躦 means
It names several foot actions, depending on context. Mandarin dictionaries list senses for 聚足 (“bring the feet together”), 鑽 and 穿 (“move through”), and 踏 (“tread”); they also record a variant reading associated with 䠡.
A Chinese dictionary of character variants cites 玉篇, an old Chinese dictionary, and 龍龕手鏡, a reference work compiled in 997. These citations show an older dictionary tradition, but the exact first appearance remains uncertain.
What does 躦鯪鯉 mean?
It names a local Taiwanese wooden-clog festival custom.
In Nantun, Taichung, people race in linked wooden clogs during the annual Dragon Boat Festival; the stomping is meant to wake a sleeping pangolin. The custom was registered as a folk cultural asset in 2008. In this name, 躦 points to the ritual stomping, not the general sense “tread.”
Rare and bookish outside specific phrases or local names; it is not a general chat reaction.
If it arrives alone, ask for the surrounding sentence before choosing a foot-action sense.
Who writes 躦
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAlone, it does not identify which foot-action sense is meant; ask for the surrounding sentence.
Don't confuse it with
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鑽 / 钻 Modern forms for “drill” or “pass through”; they match only 躦’s “pass through” sense.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 躦 show as a box?
A box usually means the font currently used lacks this glyph. Default fonts in Windows 10 and later include it, so another font may be the issue.
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How to type or find 躦
- Also called
- 躜
- Search it as
- zuan · cuo · cha · 聚足 · 躦鯪鯉 · 穿木屐 · 蹲 · 鑽
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
躦\8EA6Codes and encoding1 code points
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