What 𘨓 means
It marks a part of Tangut writing, not a word to translate. In component inventories, 𘨓 serves as a radical—a recurring part used to organize or describe characters—or as one piece of an Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS), a notation showing how a larger character is built. The number marks its entry in that inventory, not its meaning.
The Tangut script was created around 1036 under the first emperor of the Tangut-led Western Xia state, for a distinct state identity and administration. It supported Buddhist scripture as well as official and private writing. Its design drew on Chinese writing and the scripts of the neighboring Khitan state, but it remained a separate writing system.
is 𘨓 a Tangut word?
No; it is a component label, not a complete Tangut word.
Surviving Tangut writing includes official, private, and religious works, from books and Buddhist texts to inscriptions and manuscripts. A manuscript found at Khara-Khoto, an archaeological site in Inner Mongolia, probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century. After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued under the Yuan and Ming dynasties before it became obsolete. A rediscovered text about Tangut writing, printed from carved wooden blocks, lists 𘨓 among components organized by where each part appears in a character.
Technical and scholarly: this component points to Tangut script analysis or historical-text work, not ordinary conversation.
On its own, it can look like an unexplained glyph; a short note that it is a Tangut component gives the recipient context.
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Who writes 𘨓
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Questions people ask
1why does 𘨓 show as a box
A font without Tangut support is the likely cause. The character remains encoded; the box is a fallback display shown when the font cannot draw it.
How to type or find 𘨓
- Search it as
- Xixia script · Tangut component · Tangut radical · Tangut IDS · Tangut character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘨓\18A13Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.


