Tangut Ideograph 17077

A Tangut dictionary translates it as “even.”

𗁷 is translated as “even” in a Tangut–Chinese dictionary. A scholarly index gives an inferred historical reading in specialist Latin-letter notation as phji̱j; this is not a guide to modern pronunciation. The Unicode label identifies the character, while the dictionary supplies its translation.

𗁷 appears in the Sea of Writing, a 12th-century Tangut rhyming dictionary that groups words by rhyme, at position 25.251. Tangut script was promulgated in 1036 for official and cultural work in the Western Xia state, including schools, official documents, Buddhist translations, and printing. It continued in religious and monumental inscriptions after the state ended: two stone pillars bearing Buddhist sacred formulas were erected in 1502.

Is 𗁷 a Chinese character?

No. 𗁷 is a Tangut character.

Tangut writing drew on the structure of Chinese characters, but it is a separate script; 𗁷 cannot replace a Chinese Han character (one used to write Chinese). Traditional Tangut writing ran in vertical columns from right to left, while scholarly books often present it horizontally from left to right.