Tangut ideograph 𗋃

It is a Tangut word glossed as “limit.”

Tangut indexes give the reconstructed reading as sji¹, a scholarly Latin spelling of a word in the historical Tangut language. “Limit” is the dictionary gloss, not a standard chat definition.

Is 𗋃 a Chinese character?

No. It belongs to the Tangut script, which writes the Tangut language.

Tangut writing uses square, built-up forms familiar from Chinese writing, but it is a different script for a different language. A Chinese reader should not expect this glyph to be a familiar Han character or decode it through Chinese radicals.

Tangut arose in the same regional period as the Khitan and Jurchen scripts; Uyghur writing formed part of the wider setting. These are historical parallels, not ancestors of this character.

What was 𗋃 used for?

It belonged to a state writing system used for Tangut texts.

The Western Xia state, also called Xixia, in what is now northwestern China commissioned Tangut as an official script around 1036. It served government records, private writing and inscriptions, as well as translations of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist texts.

After the Mongol conquest in 1227, Tangut writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule, then fell out of use by the end of the Ming dynasty.