Tangut Component-600

It is a structural piece used to index larger Tangut characters. Researchers use Tangut components to analyze characters and find them in dictionaries; this component is not a word to translate on its own.

Tangut writing was used for state correspondence by 1036. Buddhist scripture translation was organized soon after: a translation committee was formed in 1038. In November 2014, a woodblock Tangut text called Homonyms was sold at auction in Beijing. It lists 𘩗 as a left-side component and shows it in regular and cursive sample characters.

Component-600 is a scholarly inventory label, not an old Tangut name. Unicode reconciled component lists from Chinese-, Japanese-, Russian-, and English-language Tangut dictionaries, since no single traditional set was standard. Tangut writing uses a character-building model familiar from Chinese writing; that resemblance does not make 𘩗 a Chinese radical or establish direct copying from Chinese or Khitan.

What does it mean if someone sends 𘩗?

Alone, it is a reference label or input test. By itself, 𘩗 has no separate Tangut reading or translation. To identify a word, you need the full character containing it.

Inside a full character, it is one part of the construction. The Homonyms examples show it on the left side of complete characters. In a dictionary or an Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS)—a notation that shows how a character is built—it serves as a lookup component. The same component can appear in different characters without carrying the same meaning in each.