What 𘢟 means
It marks structure inside larger Tangut characters.
Tangut components are parts used to describe, analyze, and index characters in the Tangut script. The script was created under Western Xia authority around 1036 for official and cultural work. The Sea of Characters, a rhyming dictionary that grouped characters by sound, analyzed composite characters through their parts in the mid-12th century.
Tangut writing continued in Yuan- and Ming-era texts (from later Chinese dynasties), including substantial Buddhist material. Components also serve dictionary indexing and Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS), a notation that shows a character's parts.
Is Tangut component 160 a Chinese radical?
No; it belongs to Tangut's own component system.
Tangut writing borrowed aspects of Chinese character design, but it is a separate script with its own characters and components. A Chinese radical cannot stand in for this Tangut component.
How can I type and display it?
Ordinary keyboards have no dedicated key for this component.
An Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) lays out a character's parts; this component can be one of them and does not combine with nearby text like an accent mark. A square placeholder means the selected font cannot display a Tangut glyph.
Specialist and technical: it points to Tangut study, dictionary work, or Unicode tooling rather than ordinary conversation.
Treat it as Tangut structure, not as a Chinese radical.
Questions people ask
1Why can UTF-16 count Tangut component 160 as two code units?
Because UTF-16 stores this supplementary character as a surrogate pair: two code units that together represent one character. Use code-point-aware string operations when counting characters.
How to type 𘢟
𘢟\1889FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.