Tangut Component-023

It is a Tangut building piece, not a standalone word.

Tangut writing builds larger characters from recurring structural parts. A part can contribute meaning or sound, or its role may be unclear, so 𘠖 is not a word with its own translation.

Here, component 023 is a modern label for a part used to index, describe, and analyze Tangut characters.

Why was Tangut writing created?

Western Xia created it for state, religious, and scholarly writing.

Tangut writing was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 as the state’s official script, including for translating Buddhist and classical Chinese texts.

Tangut was used in official, private, and religious writing from around the 11th to the 16th centuries. It was rediscovered in the late 19th century; recurring parts later became separate tokens for modern dictionaries, indexes, and digital analysis.

Is 𘠖 a Chinese radical?

No; it is a Tangut component in a distinct script.

Tangut writing drew on structural ideas from Chinese writing and its dictionary traditions, but Tangut is its own script. 𘠖 belongs to Tangut’s component set; a similar Han radical would be a different character, not this component’s Chinese reading.