What 𘪱 means
It is a structural part used to describe larger Tangut characters.
The Tangut script was created for the Western Xia state around 1036 CE to write the Tangut language; it appears in official, private, and religious texts. Component 690 is a modern lookup label, not a word with its own Tangut reading or translation.
How does Component 690 help identify Tangut characters?
Scholars use components to describe and find whole characters.
Tangut characters are built from structural components. Unicode 18.0 describes a Tangut radical-stroke value as the component number plus the character's total stroke count. Its component block combines systems from Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English dictionaries and other publications because no single standard component set exists. This is lookup data, not a translation of a whole character.
Why does 𘪱 look different or disappear?
Its appearance depends on whether the font includes Tangut components.
It is a text character drawn by a font. Without Tangut-component coverage, a device may show a blank or missing-glyph box.
Scholarly and technical: it appears in Tangut character description, dictionary lookup, and font or encoding work.
The label 690 is a lookup number, not a reading or translation.
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Who writes 𘪱
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘪱 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 𘪱
- Also called
- Xixia component 690 · Tangut 690
- Search it as
- 𘪱 · Tangut radical-stroke lookup · Xixia script component · Tangut component 644 · Tangut font support · Tangut Unicode escape
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘪱\18AB1\U00018AB1; other programming languages use their own escape syntax.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.