What 𗈽 means
“Dirty” is the best-supported English gloss. Several sources reconstruct the reading as *pe¹; another system writes *¹pi₁. The leading asterisk marks an inferred pronunciation, and the superscripts are scholarly tone notation.
Tangut was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 and served the empire’s official and cultural life. The earliest transmitted Tangut document identified in scholarship is dated 1072; that does not establish when 𗈽 itself first appeared. Tangut characters resemble Chinese characters, but this is a separate script.
Two 12th-century Tangut dictionaries record the character: Wénhǎi (“Sea of Writing”) and Tóngyīn (“Homophones”). After Western Xia fell to the Mongols, the script continued under Yuan and Ming rule and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
This is a historical Tangut character; one English gloss cannot tell you how it works in a full sentence.
Read “dirty” as a dictionary gloss for 𗈽; surrounding Tangut text still determines the sentence.
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Questions people ask
2Is 𗈽 an emoji?
No. 𗈽 is a Tangut writing character, not an emoji.
Why does 𗈽 show as a box?
A font without Tangut coverage may show a missing-glyph box. Choose a Tangut-capable font; fonts can draw the same Tangut character differently.
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How to type or find 𗈽
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- dirty · Xixia script · Tangut *pe¹ · Tangut font · Tangut input · tangut script · western xia writing · tangut ideogram · tangut writing
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗈽\1723DWhy is 𗈽 a box on my screen?
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Codes and encoding1 code points
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