What 𘣢 means
It names a structural component, not a word.
Modern Tangut dictionaries and Unicode use component lists to describe and index written characters. Since those lists differ, 227 is an index label, not a word or a reading. A component may contribute to a full character’s meaning or sound, but it has no fixed meaning or sound on its own.
The Tangut script was created at the court of Western Xia to write the Tangut language and was used between 1036 and 1502. Surviving manuscripts and books printed from carved woodblocks include Buddhist texts found at Khara-Khoto in 1908–1909. Tangut writing was modeled on Chinese writing’s overall form, but the two scripts cannot be read as each other: 𘣢 is a Tangut component, not a Chinese radical. This history belongs to the script as a whole.
Why does 𘣢 look wrong or fail to display?
A missing box usually means the font lacks the glyph.
A font needs Tangut Components coverage to draw 𘣢. Without it, you may see a square or replacement mark; a Tangut-capable font may display the character.
Specialist and archival: it fits Tangut research, component indexing, and font testing; unexplained in an ordinary message.
This is a Tangut component, not a Chinese radical.
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Who writes 𘣢
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘣢 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𘣢
- Also called
- Tangut radical 227
- Search it as
- Xixia script · Tangut glyph · Tangut font · Tangut Unicode
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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