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𗈏

tangut ideograph-1720f

Tangut character for disease

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Li Fanwen’s Tangut dictionary glosses 𗈏 as “disease.” It is a Tangut character preserved in Western Xia-era writing, whose square forms were inspired by Chinese script but used for another language.

Text symbol

What 𗈏 means

It refers broadly to illness, not one named condition.

Is 𗈏 a Chinese character?

No. It belongs to Tangut, a distinct language and writing system.

Western Xia ruler Li Yuanhao ordered the Tangut script in 1036 as a state-building project. It gave the Tangut language an official written form and helped distinguish Western Xia from China’s Song dynasty. Its square forms and character-building principles were inspired by Chinese writing, while Tangut remained a separate language and writing system.

Khitan rulers had created two scripts about a century earlier, one largely based on Chinese characters; Jurchen rulers later created one for their own language. These show a regional practice of designing scripts for local languages. Surviving Tangut texts include Buddhist scriptures, translations from Chinese or Tibetan, Confucian classics, military treatises, literature and official records. One manuscript from the ruins of Khara-Khoto in Inner Mongolia probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; Tangut Buddhist texts and printing continued after Western Xia fell in 1227.

Who writes 𗈏

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗈏 show as a box?

A missing-glyph box means the selected font lacks a Tangut form for this character. A font with Tangut coverage can display it.

How to type or find 𗈏

Search it as
Tangut disease character · Tangut 1720F · L2008-1187 · Western Xia script · Xixiawen
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1720F, then AltX to get 𗈏.
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-1720f”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1720f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗈏
CSS
\1720F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗈏
HTML hex
𗈏
CSS content
content: "\1720F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%88%8F
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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.

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