What 𘪥 means
It labels a component used to analyze a complete Tangut character. To find the word’s meaning, look at the full Tangut character this component describes; 𘪥 marks a part within that scholarly analysis system.
A Tangut component may carry semantic or phonetic information, and its position in a complete character helps scholars analyze the whole. Unicode groups component systems from dictionaries and publications because no single standard set served them all.
Tangut is a language; its script was commissioned for the Western Xia state in 1036. It appears in state records, inscriptions, Buddhist texts, and dictionaries. Its forms drew on Chinese writing but formed a distinct script; Khitan and Jurchen were separate scripts of neighboring states.
Technical and scholarly: used to describe, analyze, and index Tangut characters.
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Who writes 𘪥
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘪥 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut Components block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𘪥
- Search it as
- Tangut radical · Xixia script · Tangut character parts
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘪥\18AA5Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.