Tangut Component-195

It is a structural piece used to analyze Tangut characters.

Tangut characters are built from smaller parts scholars call components. These help describe a character's structure and locate it in reference books. In some dictionaries, a component also serves as a radical—the part chosen as an index heading—but the systems differ. 𘣂 names one of these reference pieces; it is not a complete word with its own translation.

Why is Tangut Component-195 called a component?

The label describes a role in modern Tangut reference systems.

The Unicode component list combines material from Tangut dictionaries and publications in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English. Its names use sequential numbers, so “Component-195” identifies a catalog entry, not a universal historical radical number.

Western Xia-era dictionaries sorted Tangut characters by sound; modern dictionaries usually sort by radical and stroke count, though their indexes differ. Tangut writing was created around 1036 for Western Xia correspondence and used to translate Buddhist texts. It continued under the Yuan and Ming periods, then became obsolete. Scholars rediscovered it in the late 19th century and largely deciphered it in the early 20th century. A Tangut text called the Homonyms includes 𘣂 in its component list; a woodblock edition was sold at a Beijing auction in 2014.