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𗆯

tangut ideograph-171af

Tangut Character 171AF

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𗆯 is a Tangut character; its English gloss is untranslated as of 2026. In 1036, Western Xia ruler Li Yuanhao commissioned Tangut writing for state-building; neighboring Khitans had developed scripts a century earlier. Tangut writing resembles Chinese but records a different language, including Buddhist, legal, and Chinese-translated texts. 𗆯 appears in 12th-century Tóngyīn (“Homophones”), a Tangut rhyme dictionary; as of 2026, unsupported Tangut fonts may show it as a box.

Text symbol

What 𗆯 means

𗆯 is the tangut ideograph-171af. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗆯 is a single code point, U171AF. In HTML that is 𗆯, and in CSS \171AF.

Who writes 𗆯

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗆯 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𗆯

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Tangut script · Tangut character · Xixia · 171AF · L2008-3479
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 171AF, then AltX to get 𗆯.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-171af”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 171af, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗆯
CSS
\171AF
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗆯
HTML hex
𗆯
CSS content
content: "\171AF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%86%AF
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols