What 𘦃 means
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The Tangut script was devised around 1036 CE under the first emperor of Western Xia, a kingdom in what is now northwestern China, to write the Tangut language. It remained in official, private, and religious texts after the kingdom fell and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Tangut characters drew visual and structural ideas from Chinese writing but formed a separate script for Tangut.
Specialist and archival: it signals Tangut text or dictionary work, not conversational writing.
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Who writes 𘦃
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘦃 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut Components block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𘦃
- Also called
- Tangut radical · Xixia component · Xixia radical
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- tangut component
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘦃\18983Codes and encoding1 code points
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