What 𘥷 means
It is part of a character’s structure, not a Tangut word.
Tangut components help scholars describe how full characters are built. Dictionaries also use them as indexing radicals: “radical” names a sorting role, not a pronunciation or translation.
The wider Tangut (Xixia) script was promulgated in 1036 under the Western Xia state to write Tangut. An early surviving witness is the Great Xia stele, an inscribed stone monument dated 1038. Tangut texts include law codes and translations of Buddhist and other works. The 12th-century Sea of Characters, a Tangut dictionary, records components contributing different meanings or sounds in different full characters; these dates describe the script’s history, not the origin of 𘥷 itself.
How does 𘥷 relate to 𘉋?
𘉋 is a complete Tangut character that includes 𘥷.
𘉋 is glossed as “eight” as a whole; that gloss does not belong to 𘥷 on its own.
Tangut specialists have used more than one component system, so 376 is a catalog label rather than a reading.
Technical and archival: it belongs in Tangut character study, dictionary indexing, Unicode work, and font support.
Do not read 𘥷 as the Tangut word for “eight”; that gloss belongs to the complete character 𘉋.
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Who writes 𘥷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘥷 show as a box?
Yes, that can happen. Tangut Components coverage depends on the font. If this character appears as an empty box, choose a font that includes Tangut Components; the box means your current font has no drawing for it.
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How to type or find 𘥷
- Also called
- Tangut radical 376 · radical 376
- Search it as
- Tangut radicals · Tangut components · Tangut dictionary · Xixia script · Western Xia script · U+18977
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘥷\18977Codes and encoding1 code points
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