What 𗁃 means
It is a Tangut character meaning “hand.” Its reconstructed reading is written *kjụ¹, a scholarly transcription of a historical Tangut sound.
Why does 𗁃 look Chinese?
Tangut writing followed a Chinese model but wrote a different language. The script was created around 1036 under the first Western Xia emperor as part of state-building. It was used for government, Buddhist and Chinese translations, and to mark an identity distinct from Song China.
Surviving manuscripts include examples from the 12th or early 13th century. Tangut appears in Buddhist and secular translations, official texts, manuscripts, and inscriptions. It continued in Yuan- and Ming-period material after Western Xia fell to Mongol armies in 1227, and had become obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. Historical books placed vertical columns in right-to-left order; the Unicode Standard lays the text out horizontally from left to right.
Historical and academic in tone; in a bare message, its gloss “hand” can make it look like a hand gesture.
It is Tangut writing, not a hand emoji.
Who writes 𗁃
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗁃 look different by font?
It can. Tangut sources contain variant glyph shapes, and Unicode treats some variants as the same encoded character while keeping others separate. The font currently in use determines the form you see.
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How to type or find 𗁃
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- 𗁃 · Tangut hand · hand in Tangut · Tangut character · Xixia script · Tangut pronunciation · kjụ¹
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗁃\17043Codes and encoding1 code points
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