What 𗆋 means
It is glossed as “to cry” in Tangut.
Li Fanwen’s Tangut-Chinese dictionary glosses 𗆋 as “to cry.” The character also appears in 12th-century entries in Wenhai (“Sea of Writing”) and Tongyin (“Homophones”), two reference works on Tangut words.
“To cry” is a dictionary gloss for a word, not a picture of someone crying.
Is 𗆋 a Chinese character?
No. It is a Tangut character.
The strokes may look Chinese, but 𗆋 belongs to a distinct script used for the Tangut language. Its resemblance to Chinese characters does not give it a Chinese reading.
The Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor about 1036. After Western Xia fell to Mongol forces, it continued to be used during the Yuan and Ming dynasties and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. The script was rediscovered in the late 19th century. Its surviving record includes official, private, and religious books, sutras, inscriptions, and manuscripts.
Historical and scholarly; this character belongs to Tangut texts and discussion of the script.
Its Chinese-like shape does not supply a Chinese reading.
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Questions people ask
2Why does 𗆋 show as a box?
It is a font issue: the active font may not include Tangut characters. Unicode identifies the character, while the font supplies its visible design; a Tangut-capable font can display it.
How was 𗆋 pronounced?
Scholarly reconstructions differ: Li Fanwen and Marc Miyake give different estimates of its historical sound.
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