What 𘤽 means
It marks a piece within Tangut character descriptions.
An ideographic description sequence (IDS) is a written formula that shows how a character is assembled. 𘤽 can serve as one of its signs; there it is technical notation, not a complete word with a translation.
Tangut writing was created in 1036 to give Western Xia, a state in what is now northwestern China, its own script. Its design drew on the Khitan, a people with their own script, and on Chinese writing principles, but it was not derived from Chinese. Translating a large collection of Buddhist texts into Tangut was likely a major goal; a surviving manuscript, probably from the 12th or early 13th century, shows that translated secular works were written in Tangut too.
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Who writes 𘤽
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Questions people ask
1Why does Tangut Component-318 appear as a box?
Your font or app probably lacks a glyph for this Tangut component. The text can still contain 𘤽; rendering requires Tangut support in the font and app.
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How to type or find 𘤽
- Search it as
- Tangut component · Tangut components · Tangut IDS · IDS · Xixia script component
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘤽\1893DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.