What 𘤊 means
It links full Tangut characters rather than carrying its own reading.
“Radical” here means a component used to analyze Tangut characters; it has no fixed meaning or sound. The mid-12th-century Tangut dictionary Sea of Characters links it to “waist” and “bird” characters.
Tangut writing began around 1036 in Western Xia, a Tangut kingdom, for state administration and translation of Buddhist and Chinese texts. It drew on Chinese writing and developed alongside Khitan traditions, but remained distinct. A Khara-Khoto manuscript, from a ruined city, probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; Tangut Buddhist printing continued in the Yuan era.
Scholarly.
A blank or box may mean your font lacks Tangut support.
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Who writes 𘤊
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘤊 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 𘤊
- Also called
- Tangut radical 267
- Search it as
- waist · Xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘤊\1890ACodes and encoding1 code points
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