What 𘫈 means
It labels a structural part of a Tangut character, not a word.
The Tangut (Xixia) script served the Western Xia kingdom’s government and Buddhist texts, giving it a written tradition distinct from China’s Song dynasty. It remained in use during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming. Neighboring Khitan states had their own scripts too; Khitan Small Script began about 925.
Tangut characters can look like Chinese characters, but the scripts are unrelated. Component numbers follow a sequence; 713 identifies this catalogue entry, not a Tangut word’s meaning or pronunciation.
A specialist index mark for studying Tangut characters.
713 is a list number, not a Tangut reading.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘫈 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.
How to type 𘫈
𘫈\18AC8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
