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𘨓

tangut component-532

Tangut Component 532

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𘨓 is a Tangut component: a structural part recorded in inventories, not a complete word with its own ordinary translation. The Tangut script served Western Xia administration, Buddhist texts, and other writing, and continued under later dynasties. If the glyph appears as a box, the active font likely lacks Tangut support.

Text symbol

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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Questions people ask

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why 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

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Xixia script · Tangut component · Tangut radical · Tangut IDS · Tangut character
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 18A13, then AltX to get 𘨓.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut component-532”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 18a13, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𘨓
CSS
\18A13
Unicode entry
Use your operating system’s Unicode input method for U18A13; the keystroke sequence depends on the system.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘨓
HTML hex
𘨓
CSS content
content: "\18A13";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%A8%93
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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