What 𘦖 means
No: 𘦖 is a Tangut component used to index full characters.
A Tangut radical is a dictionary filing key: it groups complete characters under one component so readers can find entries. The radical shows where a character is filed; it does not give a word meaning.
Western Xia’s first emperor established Tangut around 1036 for government and Buddhist scripture. The script drew on Chinese character forms and neighboring Khitan scripts but developed as its own system. An early surviving Tangut manuscript comes from Khara-Khoto, a ruined site in Inner Mongolia, and probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century.
Technical reference: this component belongs in Tangut dictionaries, historical-text study, or font testing.
A bare 𘦖 is an index component, not a translated Tangut word.
Drift: Tangut writing continued in Yuan- and Ming-period communities, including in a Buddhist inscription dated 1502.
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Who writes 𘦖
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘦖 show as a box?
When the active font lacks Tangut coverage, 𘦖 may appear as a box or blank. Choose a font that includes Tangut components; the underlying text remains this character.
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How to type or find 𘦖
- Search it as
- 𘦖 meaning · Tangut radical · Xixia script · Tangut character index · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘦖\18996Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.