Tangut Component 297

It identifies a character part, not a whole Tangut word. Scholars use components and stroke order to arrange, find, describe, and analyze complete Tangut characters. Many components also serve as dictionary radicals—the headings under which characters are filed.

The Tangut script drew on Chinese and Khitan writing. Surviving manuscripts from the mid-11th century to the early 13th century include Buddhist translations, legal works, and other texts. Unicode’s modern component inventory unifies forms found in Tangut dictionaries published in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English, and numbers its entries in sequence.

How do I use this Tangut character?

Use it in component lookup or an IDS description. An Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) is a compact formula that shows a character’s parts and their relative positions. Tangut components can fill those structural positions; the complete sequence describes a larger character.