What 𗋮 means
Tangut scholar Li Fanwen’s index glosses 𗋮 as “honey.”
The Tangut script was devised around 1036 for the Tangut language and served official, private, and religious writing.
The earliest surviving citations are in two 12th-century Tangut reference works, the Sea of Writing and Homophones.
Historical Tangut writing, with a scholarly, reference-text register.
For a standalone message, spell out “honey” for anyone who does not know Tangut.
Who writes 𗋮
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗋮 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 𗋮
- Search it as
- honey · Tangut honey · Xixia honey · tangraph · siwe · śiwe
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗋮\172EE172EE; the keystrokes for starting that mode vary by system.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

