What 𘡙 means
It is a piece used to describe Tangut characters, not a word.
Tangut writing took shape around 1036 as the Tangut leader Li Yuanhao built the Western Xia state. A major project was a Buddhist canon written in Tangut; the script also carried laws, literature, and translations from Chinese and Tibetan. Its structural style drew on Chinese writing and earlier scripts used by the Khitan, another medieval power in the region, but Tangut was a separate script, not Chinese.
A component is one form used within larger characters; this individual form has no standalone word meaning.
What is a Tangut component used for?
It helps index, analyze, and describe full Tangut characters.
Unicode's Tangut component set combines systems used in Tangut dictionaries and publications; scholars do not share one standard list. It supports dictionary lookup, structural analysis, and Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS)—short notations whose layout operators show how character parts are arranged. The 090 number is an inventory label, not a historic pronunciation or word.
How can I enter Tangut Component-090?
Use a Unicode picker with code-point entry.
Enter U18859 in an operating-system or editor picker that lets you type Unicode code points; tools vary in which blocks they support.
Technical and scholarly; alone, it reads as a component reference rather than a complete word.
A lone component does not translate as a complete Tangut word.
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Who writes 𘡙
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA reference to one structural component, not a complete Tangut word.
Questions people ask
1Why does Tangut Component-090 show as a box?
The selected font lacks its glyph. The text can still contain the right character; use a font with Tangut Components coverage.
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How to type or find 𘡙
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- Tangut component 090 · Tangut component meaning · Tangut components · Tangut script · Xixia script · Tangut character parts · Tangut IDS
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘡙\18859Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.