What 𘢽 means
It is a building piece of a larger Tangut character.
These pieces also help scholars look up Tangut characters in dictionaries. Tangut is a distinct script whose characters resemble Chinese writing; it was used by Western Xia, a medieval state in northwestern China. Ruler Li Yuanhao ordered scholars to create it. In 1036 Tangut became the state's official language, and the script marked a distinct cultural identity. Tangut texts survive in official, private, and religious works.
Technical and scholarly; it belongs to Tangut character study.
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Who writes 𘢽
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Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
It can be a font issue: if the selected font lacks this glyph, an app may show a box or fallback. A Tangut-capable font can display it.
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How to type or find 𘢽
- Search it as
- Tangut component · Tangut radical · Xixia script · Western Xia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘢽\188BDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.