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𗋥

tangut ideograph-172e5

Tangut Character 172E5

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𗋥 is a Tangut character in a distinct script resembling Chinese writing, made for the Tangut language under Western Xia (Xixia). The Tangut dictionary Sea of Writing indexes it at 82.162 under Rhyme 77. A lexicon entry checked on 2026-09-16 gives no word gloss. Tangut writing began around 1036 for official and cultural work, including Buddhist and Chinese translations, and continued after Western Xia fell in 1227.

Text symbol

What 𗋥 means

𗋥 is the tangut ideograph-172e5. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗋥 is a single code point, U172E5. In HTML that is 𗋥, and in CSS \172E5.

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Who writes 𗋥

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗋥 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 or find 𗋥

Search it as
𗋥 · Tangut script · Xixia · Sea of Writing · Rhyme 77
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 172E5, then AltX to get 𗋥.
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-172e5”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 172e5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗋥
CSS
\172E5
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗋥
HTML hex
𗋥
CSS content
content: "\172E5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%8B%A5
1
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.

Families this belongs to

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