What 𘡎 means
It is a piece of a Tangut character, not a word.
Tangut writing, also called the Xixia script, was created around 1036 for the Western Xia state. It served government, diplomacy, and Buddhist printing. The earliest transmitted document is an official record from 1072; a Buddhist inscription from 1502 is the latest known example.
Tangut drew on Chinese writing but remained distinct; scholars compare it with Khitan and Jurchen scripts. The mid-12th-century Sea of Characters dictionary indexed ideographs by components, whose meaning or sound roles can vary.
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Who writes 𘡎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘡎 show as a box?
The app may lack a Tangut font; the text can still retain 𘡎.
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How to type or find 𘡎
- Search it as
- Tangut component · Xixia script · Tangut dictionary · Tangut IME · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𘡎CSS
\1884ETangut IME
A code-based Tangut input method may return components and full characters as candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘡎
HTML hex
𘡎
CSS content
content: "\1884E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%A1%8E
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.