What 𗀆 means
It covers the body’s rear and the upright back of a chair.
Is 𗀆 a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the distinct Tangut script.
Tangut was created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor to support the state’s written identity and Buddhist writing, including a Buddhist canon—a collection of sacred texts. Its design followed earlier Khitan script-making and used principles of character-building also found in Chinese writing, but Tangut remained a distinct script.
After Western Xia fell, people continued writing Tangut in Buddhist, official, private, and literary texts. The script became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Who writes 𗀆
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗀆 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 𗀆
- Search it as
- back · chair back · body · Tangut script · Xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗀆\17006Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.