What 𘧪 means
It is a structural component, not a standalone Tangut word.
Unicode uses Tangut components to describe and index Tangut ideographs, or written characters, including in Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS), which show a character's component structure. The wider Tangut script was created under the first emperor of Western Xia about 1036 CE to write the Tangut language. This component belongs to analysis of that writing system; it does not translate word for word.
The script remained in use after the Western Xia fell to the Mongols, through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but was obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. A mid-12th-century Tangut dictionary called the Sea of Characters analyzed characters through source characters and their parts. Unicode's modern component inventory brings together forms recorded in dictionaries and other publications for study.
Technical and scholarly: this component belongs in discussion of Tangut writing; by itself, it is not a casual-use sign.
A blank box means your font lacks this glyph, not that another character is shown.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𘧪
Loading…
Questions people ask
1Why is 𘧪 a box in my font?
Your font lacks this glyph. Unicode has not replaced it with another Tangut component.
More like this
8
How to type or find 𘧪
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · minyak · IDS · component · radical · glyph · script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘧪\189EACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.