What 𗍂 means
A Tangut font controls how it appears. Some fonts omit Tangut characters or draw them differently.
Why was Tangut writing created?
It served the Western Xia state.
Created in 1036, it adapted Chinese writing traditions and models from the neighboring Khitan. A 12th-century Tangut dictionary records 𗍂; Tangut texts include Buddhist translations from Chinese and Tibetan, plus secular works.
Historical Tangut vocabulary; a specialist term.
Who writes 𗍂
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Tangut label for laryngeal sounds: consonants made in the throat at a syllable’s start.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗍂 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 𗍂
- Search it as
- throat · larynx · laryngeal · Xixia · njwij · nwe
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗍂CSS
\17342How to type Tangut
Use a Tangut input method with stroke, four-corner shape-code, or reconstructed-pronunciation search; display requires a Tangut font.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗍂
HTML hex
𗍂
CSS content
content: "\17342";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%8D%82
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.