What 𗋾 means
It is a Tangut character glossed as “fish.”
Tangut Homophones is a dictionary source that uses glosses—short notes on a character’s meaning or reading. Its gloss associates 𗋾 with “fish,” a word in the historical Tangut language.
How did Tangut writing outlive Western Xia?
Tangut writing continued after Western Xia fell.
Western Xia, also called Xixia, created the Tangut script under its first emperor around 1036 CE to write Tangut, a language in the Tibeto-Burman family. Tangut writing appears in government and private records, Buddhist sutras, books, inscriptions, and manuscripts.
Tangut texts continued to be written in the Yuan and Ming periods, before the script became obsolete.
Why does 𗋾 change shape or disappear?
Font support and style affect its appearance.
Tangut glyphs can vary between typefaces and historical editions, while the encoded character stays the same. Earlier reproductions may place text in vertical columns read right to left; modern text may run horizontally from left to right.
Tangut has no combining characters, so 𗋾 is a single encoded character. If it appears as a square, your font lacks the glyph.
Historical and specialist: its clearest context is Tangut language, writing, or scholarship.
Without Tangut context, readers may recognize the script but miss the “fish” gloss.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗋾 show as a box?
Your font lacks the Tangut glyph. A font with Tangut coverage can display it; different fonts may draw the same character differently.
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How to type or find 𗋾
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- Tangut fish character · Tangut script · Tangut fish · fish · Western Xia script · Xixia · Tangut Homophones
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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