What 𘧗 means
It is a catalogue part for indexing and describing full Tangut characters.
Some Tangut components serve as dictionary radicals, or index headings. Systems differ; 472 is a catalogue label, not the sound or meaning of a full character.
Tangut writing outlived Western Xia
Created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor, the script wrote Tangut, the local language of a northwestern Chinese kingdom. Official, legal, and Buddhist texts used it; writing continued under the Yuan and Ming after the kingdom fell in 1227.
Buddhist dhāraṇī, or ritual texts, were carved on Tangut-inscribed pillars erected in 1502.
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Who writes 𘧗
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Questions people ask
1Why does Tangut component 472 show as a box?
It can. At display time, a font or text renderer without Tangut coverage may show a box; Tangut-capable fonts can display it.
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How to type or find 𘧗
- Search it as
- tangut radical · xixia · tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘧗\189D7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.