What 𗌋 means
Tangut dictionaries gloss 𗌋 as “wild goose.” Tangut writing is a separate script from Chinese, though the characters resemble each other.
Western Xia ordered the script in 1036–1037 for state records and translations. Buddhist books were printed from carved woodblocks at Khara-Khoto, a ruined city. A 1072 official document is the script’s oldest surviving example. The Yuan and Ming dynasties kept using the script after Western Xia fell; it was obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Questions people ask
1Can 𗌋 look different in another font?
Yes. Tangut sources preserve variant glyph shapes, so fonts may draw 𗌋 differently. A font change alone does not change the character; Unicode encodes some source variants separately when dictionaries treat them as distinct entries.
How to type 𗌋
𗌋\1730BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.