What 𘨠 means
𘨠 is a structural part used to index Tangut characters.
Tangut components help scholars sort, describe, and analyze complete characters. Here, 545 is a modern catalog label: it identifies an entry in a component system, not a reading or translation.
More broadly, Tangut writing was devised in 1036 under Emperor Li Yuanhao as part of state-building. A native script made it possible to prepare a Tangut Buddhist canon and helped establish a distinct identity from the Song dynasty in China. Its design drew on Chinese visual and writing principles without deriving from Chinese. Nearby Khitan states had created two scripts about a century earlier. An undated Khara-Khoto manuscript is thought to date to the 12th or early 13th century. The Tangut kingdom’s surviving dictionaries sorted characters by sound; modern handbooks use differing component and stroke indexes.
Why is this called a component?
Because it names a piece in the lookup system.
Tangut dictionaries and publications used different component sets. Unicode brought several scholarly inventories together, gave entries sequential labels, and arranged them by stroke count and order. The number identifies a modern index entry.
This is specialist reference text for Tangut dictionary lookup, script analysis, or Unicode work.
Treat 545 as an index label, not a translation.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 𘨠 show as a box?
Your font may not contain a Tangut design for this character. The box is a fallback display; it does not change which character the text contains.
How to type 𘨠
𘨠\18A20Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.