What 𘤰 means
It is an indexing and description piece, not a translated word.
Tangut writing was created around 1036 under Western Xia's first emperor to write the Tangut language. It remained in use after Western Xia fell, through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, though it had become obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. The script was rediscovered in the late 19th century and has since been largely deciphered.
Number 305 is part of a sequential Unicode catalog name, not a reading from historical Tangut. Unicode's modern component set draws on reference works in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English; there was no single standard component list. A source reference also identifies 𘤰 as H2004-023.
Is Tangut component 305 a complete character?
No: it is one structural component, not a whole Tangut word.
An ideographic description sequence (IDS) shows how a character is assembled. Tangut component 305 in an IDS marks one structural element. In a dictionary, 𘤰 is a radical—a filing key that groups complete Tangut characters for lookup. Neither label supplies a standalone reading.
Specialist notation used to index and describe Tangut characters.
Do not translate 𘤰 as a whole Tangut word.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𘤰
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA specialist component label, not a complete Tangut word to translate.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘤰 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.
How to type or find 𘤰
- Search it as
- tangut radical 305 · xixia radical 305 · tangut 305 · xixia 305 · h2004-023 · tangut IDS · Tangut component in dictionary · Tangut character radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘤰\1893018930 as a hexadecimal code and press Alt+X (Windows/Linux) or Command+Option+X (macOS).Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.


