What 𗅛 means
In Tangut, it writes the word “sun.”
The script served the Tangut state of Xixia for correspondence and Buddhist translations. A 12th-century Tangut rhyme dictionary, Homophones, records this character. That shows it was in use by then, not that it was invented then. The gloss is clear; scholars disagree about the historical sound.
Is 𗅛 Chinese or Tangut?
It belongs to Tangut, not Chinese.
Tangut uses square, component-based forms modeled on Chinese writing, so the characters can look similar. The scripts are distinct: 𗅛 is not read or used as a Chinese character, and it is not a picture of the sun.
How is 𗅛 pronounced?
Scholars have not settled one reconstruction.
Published proposals include ljɨj², ²len₃, li̯e², and li̭e², written in different specialist reconstruction systems. These are attempts to recover a historical Tangut pronunciation, not Chinese readings; the spellings are scholarly notation rather than ordinary word forms.
Historical and specialist: use it in Tangut-language or script discussion; on its own, it may be opaque to readers unfamiliar with Tangut writing.
Who writes 𗅛
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗅛 show as a box?
Your font lacks a Tangut glyph. As of 2026, Tangut Yinchuan covers the Unicode Tangut repertoire while BabelStone Tangut Wenhai is partial; a font with Tangut coverage can display it.
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