U+8DCF "跏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8DCF "跏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) traditionally used in East Asian writing systems, particularly in classical and religious texts. Its primary meaning relates to a seated posture, most notably the "lotus position" (跏趺坐, jiāfū zuò) in Buddhism, where it describes the cross-legged sitting posture with the feet placed on the opposite thighs, a position used for meditation and contemplation. The character is composed of the radical for "foot" (足) on the left, indicating its association with the lower body, and a phonetic component on the right. In modern contexts, it appears mainly in Buddhist terminology, literature on meditation, and historical or scholarly discussions of traditional sitting practices, rather than in everyday conversation.