What ๐ means
No. Tangut is a separate script, though Chinese writing inspired its forms. Emperor Li Yuanhao ordered its creation in 1036 as part of state-building; one key aim was a Tangut version of the Buddhist canon, a collection of sacred Buddhist texts. Tangut writing also carried translations from Chinese and Tibetan, and secular works. ๐ is recorded in a 12th-century Tangut sound dictionary.
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Who writes ๐
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Questions people ask
1Why does ๐ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ๐
- Search it as
- lwer ยท lwyr ยท tangraph ยท xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text ยท its shape is whatever your font draws
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\171D9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\171D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%87%99
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.