What 𗅍 means
It is glossed “ignorant” in Tangut.
LFW2008-1914 is the dictionary label for this entry. The gloss is a word translation, not proof that 𗅍 works as a present-day insult.
Tangut writing was devised around 1036 at Emperor Li Yuanhao’s order for the Western Xia state, a Tangut kingdom. It carried official, private, and Buddhist writing, including translations of Buddhist texts, and helped establish a distinct Tangut identity. A surviving manuscript from the ruined city of Khara-Khoto probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; written Tangut continued into the Yuan and early Ming periods.
Why does it look different on my screen?
A missing glyph points to font coverage, not a changed character.
𗅍 is text drawn by a font. Different Tangut fonts may show variant forms based on different references, so its appearance can change while the encoded character stays the same.
Traditional Tangut writing ran top to bottom in columns ordered right to left; digital text is often laid out left to right.
Historical and scholarly; outside Tangut study, it reads as an opaque text character.
A dictionary gloss of “ignorant” alone does not establish a present-day insult.
Who writes 𗅍
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Questions people ask
1Why is 𗅍 showing as a square?
The active font or its fallback likely lacks Tangut coverage. A Tangut-capable font can display it; the encoded character itself has not changed.
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How to type or find 𗅍
- Also called
- LFW2008-1914 · LFW 1914 · Tangut LFW 1914
- Search it as
- ignorant Tangut character · Xixia script · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗅍\1714D𗅍 or 𗅍; display requires a font with Tangut coverage.\U0001714D; UTF-16 systems use the surrogate pair \uD81C\uDD4D.Codes and encoding1 code points
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