Tangut Component 083

It is a structural part of Tangut writing, not a complete word. Tangut writing was developed for the language of the Western Xia state and spread around 1036 under its ruler Li Yuanhao. Influenced by Chinese writing, the script had its own structure; many full characters are assembled from reusable parts.

Tangut texts served state, religious, and scholarly life. By the mid-12th century, the Tangut dictionary known as the Sea of Characters analyzed full characters through shared parts. Later dictionaries used different radical indexes, so component sets were not identical across reference works.

Unicode gathers components from several dictionary and publication traditions for indexing and analysis, and permits them in Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS). Component-083 is an encoded index label; it does not supply a pronunciation or word gloss.

Use it in a structural description

An Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) is compact notation for showing how a full character is arranged; Tangut components can appear as its structural parts.

Modern dictionaries also use components and stroke counts to help locate or analyze full characters. The component indexes vary between works, so 𘡒 can help identify a structure without having a neat word-level gloss of its own.