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tangut component-399

Tangut Component-399

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𘦎 is a Tangut component: a scholarly building block for indexing and describing Tangut characters, not a word with its own reading. The Tangut script was created for the Western Xia state around 1036–37, drew on Chinese character forms, and served state records and Buddhist texts. Its earliest surviving document dates to 1072; an inscription from 1502 shows it remained in use after the state fell.

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What 𘦎 means

No; it is a component, not a complete written word. The glyph belongs to a scholarly system for describing whole Tangut characters; it has no established reading or translation on its own.

How do scholars use Tangut components?

They help organize and analyze whole characters. Tangut dictionaries sort characters by components and stroke order. Unicode combines components from several dictionaries and scholarly systems. The components also appear in Ideographic Description Sequences, structured strings that show how a character is built.

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𘦎 show as a box?

It can be a font issue: a font without this Tangut glyph may show a box or nothing. The character itself is still 𘦎.

How to type or find 𘦎

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Tangut components · Tangut character parts · Western Xia script · Tangut writing
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1898E, then AltX to get 𘦎.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut component-399”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1898e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𘦎
CSS
\1898E
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘦎
HTML hex
𘦎
CSS content
content: "\1898E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%A6%8E
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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