Tangut character 𗈗

It is a Tangut lexical character with no settled individual English gloss.

Tangut dictionaries preserve several reconstructed readings, written in specialist notation as de̱², ²di'₁, and ne². These are scholarly attempts to record historical readings, not translations.

An entry in the 12th-century Tóngyīn (“Homophones”), a Tangut pronunciation dictionary that groups characters by sound, records 𗈗.

Why was the Tangut script created?

It gave Western Xia a written language of its own.

The Tangut court ordered a distinct script as a marker of political and cultural independence from Chinese authority. It became the government's designated language in 1036 and was used for official documents.

The script carried official records, Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist translations, Confucian classics, military works, encyclopedias, and literature. Surviving sources from the late twelfth century and thirteenth century are mostly Buddhist; some Tangut texts continued after Western Xia fell in 1227.