What 𘧢 means
It identifies a part scholars use to describe whole Tangut characters.
Tangut writing was created around 1036 CE for the Western Xia state and continued into the Yuan and Ming periods. Full characters appear in official, private, and religious texts; component analysis gives scholars a way to describe their structure.
Scholars used different component systems, so 483 is a system’s label, not a translation or reading. Unicode encodes Tangut components so dictionaries and character descriptions can refer to these parts.
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Who writes 𘧢
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘧢 look different in fonts?
The reference drawing was corrected in Unicode 13.0, from seven strokes to six. This changes the reference shape, not the component’s role.
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How to type or find 𘧢
- Search it as
- component 483 · Tangut components
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘧢\189E2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.