What 邐 means
Winding or meandering. It describes a road, movement, or landscape that bends and keeps going.
It was built for winding motion: 辵 for movement with 麗 for sound.
Use 邐 mainly in literary compounds
The earliest examples discussed here are late-Shang bronze inscriptions. Some scholars read that ritual use as a loan for assisting or guiding; another study reads a different loan graph instead.
Later use keeps the winding sense in 迤邐 and 邐迤. Taiwan records alternate orderings, while simplified Chinese writes 邐 as 逦: related spellings, not new meanings.
Literary and uncommon; use it for classical or specialized writing, not casual chat.
If 邐 shows as a square, your font lacks the glyph; switch to a CJK font.
Questions people ask
1Why does 邐 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 邐
邐\9090Codes and encoding1 code points
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