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𗈹

tangut ideograph-17239

Tangut character meaning “inspect”

𗈹 means “to inspect” in Tangut, a historical language once spoken in what is now northwestern China. It appears mainly in historical texts and Tangut research; a box may mean your font or app lacks Tangut support.

Text symbol
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inspect · examine · Tangut · Xixia · sji
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𗈹 means

It means “to inspect” in Tangut.

Created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 CE, the script wrote Tangut. Its earliest surviving texts, from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, are mostly Buddhist. After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing persisted under Yuan and Ming rule, becoming obsolete by the end of Ming. Later works include Confucian, military, encyclopedic, and literary texts.

A specialist historical character, not everyday chat shorthand.

It resembles Chinese writing, but Tangut is a separate historical script.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𗈹 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 𗈹

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 17239, then Alt+X to get 𗈹.
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-17239”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 17239, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗈹
CSS
\17239
How to type 𗈹
Tangut input methods can select by stroke pattern or by a scholarly reconstructed reading—a pronunciation inferred from historical evidence. Steps vary by tool.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗈹
HTML hex
𗈹
CSS content
content: "\17239";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%88%B9
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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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