Tangut character 17375

It is a historical Tangut character classified as a transliteration.

Tangut was the language this medieval script was created to write. Li Fanwen’s dictionary indexes this entry as “a transliteration”; that label describes its role, not a translation into English.

Its reading is reconstructed, or estimated from historical evidence: Li Fanwen gives *tśiwa¹, Miyake gives *chwa₂, and Kychanov and Sofronov give *tśwâ¹. These are specialist spellings of estimated sounds, not ordinary words to sound out using English letter names.

Where does 𗍵 come from?

It appears in 12th-century Tangut dictionaries.

An early record is in the Wénhǎi (“Sea of Writing”), at entry 26.152; the Tóngyīn (“Homophones”) also records it. These medieval references show that the character predates digital encoding.

Tangut writing was created around 1036 under the first Western Xia emperor to write the Tangut language. After Western Xia fell, it continued in official, private, and religious texts before becoming obsolete.