What 𘨖 means
It is a structural part used to analyze Tangut characters.
Scholars use Tangut components to show how a character is built and to index characters in dictionaries. “535” is the sequence label for this component, not a pronunciation or a word definition.
𘨖 also serves as Tangut radical 279, a dictionary-index category. In an ideographic description sequence (IDS)—a notation that lists a character’s structural parts—it can appear as one element; alone, it is not a complete written word.
Why are Tangut components used?
They let scholars describe and organize Tangut characters consistently.
The Tangut script, also called Xixia, was created around 1036 under the Western Xia kingdom to write the Tangut language. It remained in use until 1502, long after the kingdom fell.
The component repertoire brings together systems from Tangut dictionaries and publications in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English. That shared inventory helps describe and index Tangut characters in modern reference works.
Technical and scholarly: this is a component used to analyze and index Tangut characters.
Alone, it has no standalone Tangut word meaning.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𘨖
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Questions people ask
1Why is Tangut Component-535 not showing in my font?
Usually a font-coverage problem. 𘨖 is a text character, so the active font or a fallback font needs to include its Tangut Components glyph. If it appears as an empty box, try a font with Tangut coverage.
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How to type or find 𘨖
- Also called
- Tangut radical-279
- Search it as
- tangut radical 279 · tangut character parts · tangut components · xixia writing · tangut font · tangut keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘨖\18A16Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.