What 𘡊 means
No; 𘡊 is one structural part of a Tangut character.
The Tangut component set is a modern scholarly index used to find, describe, and analyze larger ideographs. It names building blocks; it does not give 𘡊 one fixed translation.
In the Tangut character for “warehouse,” 𘡊 sits above a sound-bearing component and contributes the idea “to hide.” Read the whole character: its other parts determine how it works.
Where did 𘡊 come from?
Its historical home is Tangut writing in the Western Xia state.
The script entered use in the 11th century for state administration, schools, official documents, Buddhist translations, and Chinese works. Its design drew on Chinese character-making principles and developed alongside neighboring Khitan state scripts.
The 12th-century Tangut–Chinese glossary Pearl in the Palm records 𘡊 in a variant of 𗱔, the character for “horse's bit”; the same variant appears in Nikolai Nevsky's draft Tangut dictionary. This is an attested component inside a character, not an independent word.
Alone, 𘡊 reads like a research specimen; Tangut components support scholarly indexing and analysis.
Read the whole Tangut character; 𘡊 alone has no fixed translation.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𘡊
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA specimen or lookup target, not a complete word.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘡊 show as a box or change shape?
It can. If a font lacks the Tangut glyph, it may show a box; different fonts can draw it differently. In pre-Unicode fonts, Tangut characters were mapped to CJK code points, and incompatible mappings could display the wrong character.
How to type or find 𘡊
- Search it as
- tangut component 75 · tangut component 075 · tangut component meaning · xixia character component · tangut component lookalike · tangut font glyph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘡊\1884ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.


