Tangut Ideograph 17057

A Tangut dictionary glosses it as “a surname.”

Tangut was an extinct language written in its own script for the Tangut-led Western Xia state in northwestern China. The script took visual inspiration from Chinese writing, but it represents Tangut, not Chinese.

Historical accounts date the script's design to 1036 and credit court official Yeli Renrong. It served government records, diplomacy, and Buddhist texts translated from Chinese and Tibetan. Western Xia fell in 1227, but Tangut writing continued: Buddhist dhāraṇī (ritual prayer) pillars carved in Baoding date to 1502.

How can I type 𗁗?

Use a Tangut-aware character picker or input method.

For occasional use, choose a character picker that supports the Tangut script.

For repeated typing, install a Tangut scheme for RIME, an input-method framework. Xunpin offers a scholarly Latin reconstruction, stroke input, or four-corner codes based on a character's corner strokes; the installed scheme's dictionary determines which codes work.

Why does 𗁗 show as a square?

The app probably lacks a font that can draw Tangut.

As of 2026, some mobile apps still fail to render Tangut characters, leaving an empty square even though the text contains 𗁗. Open the text in an app with Tangut font support.

Unicode 17.0's sample glyph is not a fixed template: fonts may draw 𗁗 with small style differences. Those differences change the drawing, not the encoded character.