What 𘪩 means
It marks a structural part used to describe other characters.
Tangut components help dictionaries locate characters and appear in Ideographic Description Sequences (short strings that show a character's parts). This inventory draws on reference systems in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English publications; 682 identifies a catalog entry.
Why does 𘪩 show as a box?
Your font may not include Tangut characters.
A blank square or fallback shape signals a font-coverage problem. Choose a font with Tangut support; different fonts can draw the same character differently.
The Tangut script outlived Western Xia
Created around 1036 to write Tangut, the script remained in use after Western Xia fell. Records from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries include Buddhist material from Qara-Qoto that helps document printing and religion. Component 682 is a later catalog label, not a date for the first use of this exact form.
Technical and archival; it points to Tangut text study, dictionary work, or encoding.
Give it context if the recipient is not reading Tangut reference material.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𘪩
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA structural clue to the parts of a larger Tangut character.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘪩 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𘪩
- Search it as
- 𘪩 · tangut 682 · xixia 682 · tangut radical · tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘪩\18AA9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.