What 𘫺 means
The join marks a structural variant inside a larger character.
Tangut components help scholars describe characters and find them in dictionaries. Xixia writing was created in 1036 under Emperor Li Yuanhao for state-building and Buddhist scriptures. A surviving manuscript, probably from the 12th or early 13th century, translates a Chinese work into Tangut. Tangut writing drew on Chinese characters visually but did not derive from them.
A 2020 Unicode proposal says the joined form is used above another component; elsewhere, old copies can blur it with 𘡃.
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Who writes 𘫺
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘫺 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 𘫺
- Search it as
- Xixia · joined strokes · unjoined strokes · Tangut dictionary
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘫺\18AFACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.