What 𗂚 means
A banquet.
Li Fanwen’s Tangut-Chinese dictionary glosses it as “banquet”; it is a written word, not a picture.
The Tangut script began in 1036 for official writing, schools, and a Buddhist canon; that dates the system, not this glyph’s first surviving appearance.
Is 𗂚 Chinese or Tangut?
Tangut, a separate script for the Tangut language.
Its forms drew on Chinese writing; creating a separate script followed neighboring Khitan rulers’ example. Texts from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries include Buddhist works, Chinese and Tibetan translations, classics, military texts, and literature; Tangut writing continued after Western Xia fell in 1227.
Historical Tangut vocabulary.
A Chinese-like shape does not make it Chinese.
Who writes 𗂚
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗂚 show as a box?
A font with no Tangut coverage may show a box or replacement mark.
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How to type or find 𗂚
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- banquet · Tangut banquet · Xixia · Western Xia script
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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