What 𘫷 means
No; it names a structure, not a Tangut word.
Scholars use Tangut components to index whole characters and write an Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS), a written outline of a character's structure.
How is this component tied to Tangut history?
It appears in a Tangut reference book's component list.
The Tangut script was devised around 1036 to write the Tangut language, before the Western Xia kingdom formed. It later carried official records and Buddhist texts and remained in use after the kingdom fell in 1227; manuscripts from Khara-Khoto preserve examples.
The Tangut woodblock reference Homonyms lists character parts. An edition was sold at a Beijing auction in 2014; a 2018 Unicode proposal used its lists to propose seven components, including this one.
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Who writes 𘫷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘫷 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 𘫷
- Search it as
- Tangut component · IDS · Homonyms
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘫷\18AF7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.