What 𘣓 means
It is an indexing component, not a standalone word.
It helps scholars organize and analyze complete Tangut characters.
Tangut component inventories differ by dictionary, so 212 is a catalog label, not a universal radical number.
Tangut script began in the early 11th century for Western Xia, a medieval state. Its design drew on Chinese and neighboring Khitan writing, but Tangut characters were made for their own language, not copied from Chinese one by one. Surviving sources cluster in the late 12th and 13th centuries and include Buddhist, legal, historical, and economic works. Use continued into the Ming period.
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Who writes 𘣓
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Questions people ask
1Why does Tangut component 212 show as a box?
If no available font covers Tangut, the character may appear as a box; a font with Tangut coverage can display its shape.
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How to type or find 𘣓
- Search it as
- Tangut component · component 212 · Tangut radical · Tangut script · Tangut font · Xixia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘣓\188D3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.