Tangut character 170FD

It means “poor,” “destitute,” or “in despair.”

Tangut dictionaries give a reconstructed reading in scholarly Latin-script notation as *war¹. The 12th-century Tangut pronunciation dictionary Tóngyīn (“Homophones”) also records the character. This is a historical lexical meaning; read the surrounding message to tell whether it is being quoted or discussed.

Tangut, a historic language in the Tibeto-Burman family, was written with this script. Western Xia’s first ruler, Li Yuanhao, ordered a distinct Tangut script about 1036; Yeli Renrong and other scholars worked on it to distinguish the dynasty from Chinese language and culture. The earliest transmitted document is dated 1072. Writing continued after Western Xia fell in 1227 and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. The script was rediscovered in the late 19th century; N. A. Nevskij’s early 20th-century work helped decipher it.

Why does 𗃽 show as a box?

A box can mean the font lacks this Tangut glyph.

Tangut characters have variant shapes in historical sources. Unicode groups variants as one character when a source does not use them to distinguish separate entries; where a source does, they remain separate characters. Choose a font with Tangut coverage if the glyph is missing; a similar-looking Chinese character is not an equivalent.