What 𘫍 means
It is a Tangut component, not a standalone word. 𘫍 is a structural part used to describe larger Tangut ideographs. In dictionaries, components let scholars index characters by radical and stroke; components can also appear in Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS), a notation that shows how a character is built. It is an indexing and building-block sign, not a translated word.
𘫍 did not originate as a digital symbol. A 2008 encoding proposal calls it TANGUT RADICAL R0718; that label gives its place in a component system, not a pronunciation. The Unicode Tangut repertoire draws on dictionaries and publications, bringing a scholarly indexing system for an older script into digital text. Component systems differ, and a component's role depends on the larger ideograph and the indexing tradition.
Technical and specialist: it fits Tangut scholarship, dictionary indexing, and font or input testing; a complete ideograph carries the reading in ordinary text.
On its own, 𘫍 does not supply a word reading; use the complete Tangut ideograph when you mean a word.
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Who writes 𘫍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘫍 show as a box?
The font cannot display the character. A font with Tangut coverage is needed; the box is a missing-glyph mark, not another reading for 𘫍.
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How to type or find 𘫍
- Also called
- R0718 · Xixia radical 718
- Search it as
- Tangut radical R0718 · Tangut component index · Tangut IDS · Unicode input 18ACD · Rime Xunpin · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘫍\18ACDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.