What 𗌎 means
One Tangut dictionary glosses it as “blood stasis.”
That means blood that is obstructed or not circulating normally. Tangut writing was designed using Chinese character structure as a model, but it represents a separate language. 𗌎 is Tangut, not a Chinese character.
The Western Xia (Xixia) court created the script in 1036 for official and cultural use. Tangut books included government texts and Buddhist translations from Chinese and Tibetan. Following the 13th-century Mongol conquest, Tangut fell out of daily use, but its script continued under Yuan and Ming rule until it became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
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Who writes 𗌎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗌎 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𗌎
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- blood stasis · Xixia · western xia writing · tangut script · tangut ideogram · chinese looking character
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗌎\1730EWhy is 𗌎 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
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A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.