What 𗍜 means
It means “broad, shallow” in Tangut.
The Tangut script was created around 1036 for the Tangut-led Western Xia state in what is now northwestern China. It carried government, legal, literary and Buddhist texts; Tangut texts continued through 1502.
A 12th-century Tangut dictionary called the Sea of Characters records the historical reading as *pja. This is a scholarly transcription, not a guide to modern pronunciation.
How do I type 𗍜?
Use Unicode hexadecimal input if your app supports it.
Enter 1735C, the character’s hexadecimal Unicode value, in an input tool that accepts code points; ordinary Latin keyboards have no dedicated key for it. A 2007 Unicode report on Tangut fonts notes that fine stroke details can vary by font; without Tangut font coverage, a system may show a missing-glyph box.
Why does 𗍜 look Chinese?
It uses Chinese-like square forms, but belongs to Tangut.
Tangut and Chinese are separate writing systems. The stroke-dense shape may look familiar, but a Chinese reader cannot infer this Tangut word from its appearance.
Historical and specialist; outside Tangut-language context, its meaning will not be obvious.
A Chinese-like shape does not make it readable as Chinese.
Who writes 𗍜
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗍜 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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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗍜\1735CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.