Tangut Component 658

It is a catalogued part, not a Tangut word.

Component 658 belongs to an inventory used to index, describe, and analyze Tangut ideographs (written characters). Tangut components can serve as dictionary radicals—grouping keys—or appear in an Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS), a written description of a character's structure. An IDS describes parts; it does not assemble a new character on screen.

Tangut writing was created about 1036 by order of Western Xia's first emperor as part of state-building. A main reason is thought to have been producing a Tangut Buddhist canon, a collection of scriptures. Surviving texts also include translated Confucian, military, encyclopedic, and literary works. A manuscript found in the ruins of Khara-khoto in Inner Mongolia probably dates to the twelfth or early thirteenth century. The script drew on Chinese writing but was not derived from it; Tangut rulers also followed the neighboring Khitan example of creating state scripts. This component's sequential number belongs to later scholarship.

How do I type 𘪑?

Use Unicode input that accepts U+18A91.

This character sits beyond the basic range supported by some older text tools, so the editor must accept supplementary-plane Unicode. A Tangut-capable font must also draw it; different outlines can still represent the same character.