What 𘣿 means
It is a structural part, not a Tangut word on its own.
Tangut writing was developed at the Western Xia court in 1036–1038 for government use and Buddhist texts, giving the kingdom a written identity distinct from the neighboring Song dynasty. Manuscripts surviving from the mid-11th to early 13th centuries include religious, legal, administrative, and literary works.
Tangut writing drew on Chinese writing and followed a precedent set by scripts of the neighboring Khitan people, while becoming its own system. As a Tangut radical, 𘣿 is a lookup part used to group complete characters; one index lists two full characters under it. Read a complete character for its word: this component alone has no translation.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘣿 show as a box?
A font without Tangut coverage may display a box in place of 𘣿. A font that includes Tangut glyphs can display it.
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How to type or find 𘣿
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- Tangut · Tangut radical · Tangut script · Tangut writing · Xixia · Western Xia · Tangut font · 𘣿
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘣿\188FFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.