What 𘡰 means
It is a structural part of Tangut characters, not a word. Components help scholars describe character structure and find complete characters in reference works.
A component number identifies an entry in an inventory; it does not tell you how a complete character sounds or what it means. Component-113 by itself does not identify a larger Tangut character.
Why was this symbol encoded?
It gives researchers a way to index and describe Tangut character structure. Tangut is the historical writing system of the Tangut language. Surviving texts include government documents and translations of Buddhist and Chinese works.
Tangut writing drew on Chinese character-writing traditions but represents a different language; its components are not Chinese radicals. Component inventories developed through scholarship, and researchers use more than one scheme. Unicode’s component set brings together forms from multiple dictionaries and publications, so Component-113 serves as a modern analysis and lookup unit.
Why is the glyph missing or different?
A font without Tangut coverage can show a missing-glyph square. 𘡰 is text, so its outline comes from a font; Tangut fonts may draw it with different details. As of 2026, Noto Serif Tangut is an available Tangut font.
An Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) records how a character’s parts are arranged. Tangut components can appear in an IDS, but 𘡰 alone is not one, and a run of isolated components is not readable Tangut prose. Treat it as a structural token when analyzing characters or checking font support.
Technical and archival: it suits Tangut research, character analysis, or font testing, not a general-purpose reaction.
Do not read 𘡰 as Chinese 又; it belongs to Tangut component analysis.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 𘡰 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 𘡰
𘡰\18870Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
