Tangut Component 214

Use Unicode input and enter U+188D5. Type the code point through your app’s Unicode input command; exact keystrokes depend on your system and app.

In the Xixia (Tangut) script, used for a historical language, this is a structural component, not a word. Scholars use Tangut components to index larger characters and to write ideographic description sequences: short formulas showing how a character is built from parts.

What does Tangut component 214 mean?

It marks a structural piece, not a word. By itself, 𘣕 labels a part of a larger Tangut character rather than a word to translate.

The modern component set brings together parts used in Tangut dictionaries published in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English, plus pieces needed for character descriptions. Its labels are ordered by stroke count and stroke order, so 214 is a Tangut sequence label.

Work on the Tangut script may have begun under Li Deming before 1036; his son Li Yuanhao standardized it in 1036 for Western Xia state-building. It drew on Chinese and Khitan writing models but was used for the Tangut language, including a collection of Buddhist scriptures and many other books. Tangut writing remained in use into the early 14th century; this component’s 2016 encoding belongs to modern cataloguing, centuries later.