What 𗌙 means
It means “butter” in Tangut. A Western Xia inventory also records “butter.”
The Tangut script was created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor to strengthen the state and support a Buddhist canon—a collection of scriptures—in Tangut. It drew on Chinese character structure but remained a separate script. Tangut writing continued after Western Xia fell, including in Yuan- and Ming-era texts.
Historical and specialist; it belongs in Tangut writing or discussion.
Its Chinese-inspired structure does not make 𗌙 a Chinese character.
Who writes 𗌙
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗌙 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.
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How to type or find 𗌙
- Search it as
- butter · tangut · xixia · tangraph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗌙\17319Codes and encoding1 code points
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